OPEN ACCESS SOFTWARE DEVELOPED BY THE MYERS LAB

The Myers Lab develops computer software both to implement experimental testing protocols, and also to implement computational models.  As part of the field's emerging open access initiatives, we are making software freely available to download and use for scientific (non-commercial) purposes, allowing others to replicate, validate, and extend our empirical work.

Currently, executable software and instruction files are available for several of our published tasks, archived under the "MyersLab" project at the Open Source Framework (OSF) website.  Instructions for downloading are below; note that tasks run on Macintosh computers running OS X (10.7+).

Additionally, source code is available for several programs implementing simulations (computational modeling) that accompanied published papers.  Instructions for download are below.

Instructions for downloading experimental task software from MyersLab project at Open Source Framework (OSF) website:

1. Go to www.osf.io/7by34 (or, go to www.osf.io and search for "MyersLab" project).
2. On the MyersLab project site, under "Components" (on the right hand of the page) is a list of available tasks, including "Avatar Task," "Quarters Task," etc. Click on the desired task.
   
3. You will be taken to the page for that task. The task page has a brief description at the top.  On the left of the page, under "Files," under "OSF Storage," is a list of available materials.  These include executable task software (.zip files) and instruction manuals (.pdf files) for each task.  If there is more than one version of a task available (e.g., "Avatar v.1" and "Avatar v.3"), there will be one .zip file and one .pdf for each.  Click on selected file(s).
   
4. A preview screen will open.  (PDF documents will be previewed, although images may not appear correctly in preview mode; zipped files will not display in preview.)  Click on "Download" button (upper left of page) to download the file(s).
   
5. For executable file, download the .zip file directly onto a Mac computer; it should automatically unzip, or you can doubleclick to extract.  If downloading .zip files onto a non-Mac, do not unzip until the .zip file has been copied onto a Mac.

Instructions for downloading simulation (modeling) software from MyersLab project at Open Source Framework (OSF) website:

1. Go to osf.io/78sbu (or, go to www.osf.io and search for "MyersLab" project).
2. On the MyersLab project site, under "Components" (on the right hand of the page) is a list of available software, organized by publication in which the model simulations appeared. Click on the desired task.
   
3. You will be taken to the page for that modeling software. The task page has a brief description at the top.  On the left of the page, under "Files," under "OSF Storage," is a list of available materials.  These may include simulation code (usually .txt files) and instruction manuals (.pdf files). In some cases there may be sample output files (usually .doc files) and analysis templates (usually .xls files).  Click on selected file(s).
   
4. A preview screen will open.  (PDF documents will be previewed, although images may not appear correctly in preview mode.)  Click on "Download" button (upper left of page) to download the file(s).
   
5. Simulation code is usually written in C or C++ for Mac xcode environment, but has been saved as a .txt file; contents can be imported to your favorite C or C++ compiler.  Every effort has been made to minimize use of external libraries to keep the code as portable as possible, however it is likely that at least some modifications will need to be made for the code to run under different compilers.