History
Since opening in 2009, HDSL has hosted 1,000+ experiments designed and conducted by more than 70 faculty and researchers from 7 different schools and institutions at Harvard University. Researchers working here span the intellectual community at Harvard, from senior tenured faculty to seniors in Harvard College conducting research for a thesis. The lab facility is now open to non-Harvard-affiliated researchers who want to run studies.
Specialties
Take Studies, Help Researchers, Get Paid! Humans are hard to figure out. Help researchers understand how people behave. Join over 10,000 people from the Boston area that get paid on the spot to take cool studies, such as answer surveys, role play, or pilot new technology. Run studies with us! Researchers working in our facility have access to a world-leading biobehavioral research laboratory, a large and diverse subject pool, and a group of colleagues eager to help refine a set of research questions, design an experimental protocol using the Lab's systems, and conduct experiments.