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Getting started

Everything you need to know to create and publish a study on Prolific.

Advanced study setup

Learn how to make use of our advanced study features

Managing participants and submissions

Approve and manage submissions. Pay and interact with participants.

Pricing and billing

Learn how pricing and billing works.

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Knowledge base

  • Getting started

    Everything you need to know to create and publish a study on Prolific

  • Advanced study setup

    Learn how to make use of our advanced study features

  • Managing participants and submissions

    Approve and manage submissions. Pay and interact with participants.

  • Pricing & Billing

    Learn how pricing and billing works.

  • FAQ

    Frequently asked questions

  • Prolific's Best Practice Guide

    Our guide on how to do great research online (and offline!)

Getting started

Study setup

  • Quick guide to using Prolific
  • Creating a study on Prolific
  • Using attention checks as a measure of data quality
  • How much time will participants have to complete my study?
  • Schedule Publish
  • Pausing and stopping a study
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Survey software integrations

  • Qualtrics Integration Guide
  • What survey/experimental software is compatible with Prolific?
  • Gorilla Integration Guide
  • Typeform Integration Guide
  • Qualtrics survey template
  • Google Forms Integration Guide

Selecting your participants

  • Using our demographic filters to prescreen participants
  • Can I screen participants within my survey?
  • Adding participants to a study (increasing places)

Recording participants

  • Recording participants' Prolific IDs in your study/survey
  • Recording participants as complete on Prolific
  • Exporting Prolific Demographic Data
  • Problems with the completion URL (NOCODE or incorrect code submissions)

Advanced study setup

Video or Audio Interviews or Focus Groups

  • Live Video or Audio Interviews or Focus Groups - Step by Step
  • Video or Audio Interviews and Focus Groups - Study Description Checklist

Advanced participant screening

  • How to prescreen for participants who are fluent in multiple languages
  • Recruiting a Custom Sample
  • How to prevent certain participants from accessing your study
  • Inviting specific participants to your study using an Allowlist

Balancing and randomising

  • Demographic balancing, e.g. ensuring 50% males and 50% females
  • Random assignment

Dyadic studies

  • Running studies on couples
  • Dyadic experiments

Longitudinal Studies

  • Longitudinal/Multi-part studies
  • Minimising dropout / attrition rate in longitudinal studies
  • Delaying payments for a long longitudinal study

Representative samples

  • Representative Samples on Prolific
  • Representative Samples FAQ

Managing participants and submissions

Contacting participants

  • Sending messages to participants
  • Can I collect participants emails to contact them later?
  • Asking a participant to repeat their submission

Reviewing and approving submissions

  • Return vs. Reject: When should I ask a participant to return their submission?
  • Automatic approvals
  • Reviewing submissions: How do I decide who to accept/reject?
  • Requesting a Rejection Limit Increase
  • Active submission status
  • Approved submission status
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Paying participants

  • How participants are paid
  • Bonus payments
  • Partial payments

Pricing & Billing

Pricing

  • What is your pricing?
  • Different currencies (e.g., US Dollars)

Billing

  • Billing: Invoices & Receipts
  • Topping up your account via debit/credit card
  • Topping up your account via bank transfer
  • Refunds
  • Total and Available Balance
  • Adding a VAT number to your account

FAQ

The Prolific platform

  • What is Prolific?
  • How is Prolific different from MTurk & Co?
  • Researcher Referrals
  • Citing Prolific
  • Who can post studies on Prolific?
  • What if my study is time sensitive?
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Study creation

  • Estimated and average reward per hour
  • What do each of the details in the study creation form mean?
  • Can I create surveys using Prolific?

Study management

  • Preventing participants from taking your study multiple times
  • Can I change any details of my study after it is published?
  • Can I resend notifications about my study to participants?
  • Changing the eligibility criteria of a live study
  • Deleting a study

Our participants

  • How do participants find out about my study?
  • When are Prolific participants most active?
  • Who are the people in your participant pool?
  • How does Prolific recruit participants?
  • How does Prolific prevent duplicate participant accounts?

Practices, security and privacy

  • Can I ask Participants for their Personal Information/Identifiers?
  • Data Protection and Privacy
  • Prolific Practices and Security Systems

Troubleshooting

  • A participant has reported they can't access my study
  • Troubleshooting login issues
  • Why is my account on hold?
  • How to Resolve an Underpaying Study with Bonus Payments
  • Missing data from Prolific participant
  • Participants who don't match the prescreening selected
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Prolific's Best Practice Guide

Phase 1: Questions to ask before creating a study

  • What research question do I want to answer? And why?
  • Am I doing exploratory or confirmatory research? Why does it matter?
  • What is my target population?
  • What type of data do I need? Quantitative or Qualitative?
  • How large should my sample be?
  • Preregistering your Research

Phase 2: Things to keep in mind when designing a study

  • How to phrase questions and items
  • Special focus: Sensitive questions
  • The order of your questions
  • Tips for the visual design of your survey
  • Failed attention checks
  • Biases in research
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Phase 3: Piloting and launching your study

  • “What’s that noise?” — Of systematic and random errors, or: Why pilot testing is important
  • When to pilot test your study
  • Approving Submissions and Rejecting Participants

Phase 4: Analysing your data

  • Two common statistical frameworks: Null Hypothesis Significance Testing and Bayesian Statistics
  • Pro-Tip: Point and Range Estimations – or: How to make your theory more interesting and useful

Phase 5: Iterating the research cycle

  • Aim for converging evidence & theory building

Phase ∞: Metascience & the empirical cycle

  • Researcher degrees of freedom
  • A manifesto for reproducible science (by Munafò et al., 2017)

Statistical and Methodological Concepts

  • What kind of sampling methods are there?
  • What are the advantages and limitations of an online sample?
  • Statistical Power

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