Reaction time studies with computers investigate how and how quickly participants respond to changing sensory input. They promise simple and precise measurement of time and inputs and offer interesting insights into human behavior. However, several previous studies have discovered imprecisions in timing appearing as delays, depending on the browser, software and programming used for conducting such studies. Since the accuaracy of the collected data is widely discussed, we aim to provide new results on the effect of unintended delays on participants' behavior. For this purpose, a new reaction time study was conducted. Computer delays were added to the experiment to investigate their effects on participants' performance and repulsion. Minimal changes in participants' behavior did occur and should be furtherly investigated, as the power of this study was rather low and might not have uncovered all underlying effects. The following report details our study design and results and offers several suggestions for improvements in further studies.

翻译：利用计算机进行的反应时间研究探讨了参与者如何以及以多快的速度响应变化的感官输入。这类研究有望实现对时间和输入的简单精确测量，并为人类行为提供有趣的见解。然而，此前多项研究发现，因开展此类研究所使用的浏览器、软件和编程方法不同，会出现以延迟形式呈现的时间不精确性问题。由于所收集数据的准确性受到广泛讨论，我们旨在就意外延迟对参与者行为的影响提供新的研究成果。为此，我们开展了一项新的反应时间研究。实验中人为添加了计算机延迟，以探究其对参与者表现和排斥反应的影响。参与者行为出现了细微变化，这些变化应得到进一步研究，因为本研究的统计功效较低，可能未能揭示所有潜在效应。以下报告详细阐述了我们的研究设计与结果，并为后续研究的改进提出了若干建议。