Rating two scales simultaneously

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Hi everyone,

I’m developing an experiment where in each trial participants need to complete two rating scales. I want to design a scale like the one shown in the photo below, where I can click anywhere inside the square and then get two rating responses simultaneously. I am wondering whether and how this design can be implemented through Psychopy. Many thanks for your help in advance!
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Yep, if I understand correctly your question this is doable.
Attached an example.
Note:

  • In Experiment Settings → Screen I canged the Units from height to pix.
  • I added a warning message that will appear if participants click outside of the square
  • I leave it to you to modify the text I added and add text around the square.
  • there are 4 trials

The output will give you the coordinates of the mouse when clicked. You can convert these to a more meaninful measurement post-data collection or live when ruinning the exp if you know how to do it.ratingScale.psyexp (14.7 KB)

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Hi Yiannis,

Sorry for replying late, and many thanks for sending me the example! I tried it and It works well for me when i made moderate reponses (i.e. around the center area); however, when i attempted to make a more extreme one (clicking the near the edge area), the rating cannot be completed and the trial cannot move to the next one. Would this also happen to you?

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Yes, it works for all 4 edges plus whatever is inside. Did you follow bullet point 1 in my reply?

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Yes, i did changed the units from height to pix, but the square rating scale cannot work properly in my side. It’s quite weird as if we set the sq_frame as the clickable stimuli, then clicking anywhere inside should work (as how it works on your side)… I’ll try with another device and see how it goes…