ConceptBuilder is a software tool for drawing, viewing, and quantifying causal models in psychological experiments, programmed by Edward Y. Park for the Causal Cognition Lab. We have released the package as open-source software under the GNU General Public License [see terms]. If you are not already familiar with the GNU GPL, you must read the terms to understand how to use this software legally. See also Kim & Park (in press) [pdf] for more information.

The ConceptBuilder package, pre-configured for Windows, can be downloaded here without charge as a single zip file (40 Kb). [Windows download]

Update (6/30/08): To get started more quickly and conveniently, Mac users can now download this alternate version of the ConceptBuilder package [Mac download]. We've adjusted the minor settings on a Mac OSX. See Read Me file in the downloaded package.

Either download contains all the files necessary to run ConceptBuilder:

• conceptbuilder.tcl - The main ConceptBuilder program

• conceptviewer.tcl - A utility for viewing diagrams generated by users

• config_sample.tcl - A sample experiment configuration file consisting of two concepts

• conceptanalysis.pl - A program written to extract adjacency matrices from the ConceptBuilder output

• Read Me file containing installation and quick start guides

Citation

Kim, N. S., & Park, E. Y. (in press). ConceptBuilder: An open-source software tool for measuring, depicting, and quantifying causal models. Behavior Research Methods. [pdf]

Contact

This software is free, but as a courtesy, please drop us an email if you are downloading it to use in a study. We'd love to get a sense of how widely it is being used.