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        From an institutional perspective, the major advantage is cost reduction. Departments that base undergraduate laboratory experiences on our set of experiments will not have to dedicate computers for student use in their own departments. Their ultimate savings in hardware, maintenance, space, and security costs should be considerable. Moreover, institutions not presently offering laboratory experiences in psychology will be able to use our Website as a virtual laboratory, a possibility that we will make a reality through the outreach efforts that are a key component in our FIPSE project.

The free distribution of experimental modules and the automatic collection of data through an Internet-based psychology laboratory is one of the goals of PsychExps, the FIPSE funded project for developing an Internet-based psychology laboratory. This virtual lab would be available to any institution of learning interested in teaching psychology, not only to those without psychology laboratories. Internet-based psychology laboratories will provide quicker collection of data from many more students than traditional labs allow. In addition, because the experiments are modular and downloadable, they are easily modifiable to the exact needs of any particular psychology laboratory. And finally, PsychExps will allow users to use and add to a virtual library of experiments. Individual users can develop their own experiment modules and place them in the PsychExps library for use by anyone.