Discover 18 peer-reviewed studies in Behavioral Research Methods (2018–2025). Explore research findings powered by Prolific's diverse participant panel.
This page lists 18 peer-reviewed papers in the research area of Behavioral Research Methods in the Prolific Citations Library, a curated collection of research powered by high-quality human data from Prolific.
-
Authors: A Söderström, A Shatte
Year: 2025
Published in: Behavior Research ..., 2021 - Springer
Institution: University of Helsinki
Research Area: Intelligent Agents, Health Research Methodology, Behavioral Research Methods
Discipline: Research Methodology, Behavioral Science
The study found that chatbot-assisted surveys modestly improve data quality, with most users finding the chatbots helpful and widely using them.
Methods: Randomized participants into chatbot-supported and unassisted survey conditions; assessed chatbot use, user satisfaction, and data quality via validated and deliberately confusing challenge items.
Key Findings: Effects of chatbot assistance on data quality, user satisfaction, and usage patterns in online questionnaires.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01574-w
Citations: 7
Sample Size: 300
-
Authors: N Byrd
Year: 2025
Published in: Byrd, N. (2025). Reflection-Philosophy Order Effects and Correlations Across Samples. Analysis. DOI: 10.1093/analys/anaf015. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/y8sdm
Institution: Stevens Institute of Technology
Research Area: Behavioral Research Methods, Experimental Psychology, Crowdsourcing Platforms
Discipline: Psychology
Reflective reasoning correlates with certain philosophical decisions, and the study suggests bidirectional causal paths between reflection and philosophy, with test order effects influencing reflection test outcomes but not philosophical decisions.
Methods: Participants from four sources (Amazon Mechanical Turk, CloudResearch, Prolific, and a university) were tested on reflective reasoning and their decisions on 10 philosophical thought experiments.
Key Findings: Impact of reflective reasoning on philosophical decisions and the effect of test order on reflection and philosophy outcomes.
Citations: 4
-
Authors: M Brassil, É Duncan, C Greene, B Mac Síthigh
Year: 2025
Published in: 2025 - osf.io
Institution: University College Dublin
Research Area: Eyewitness Memory, Misinformation Effect, Behavioral Research Methods, Online Data Collection Platforms
Discipline: Psychology
The study found that data collection contexts significantly influence susceptibility to eyewitness misinformation, with Prolific participants being less accurate and more susceptible compared to Laboratory or general online participants.
Methods: Two studies were conducted comparing eyewitness misinformation susceptibility across Laboratory, Prolific, and General Online participant groups under varying visual perceptual load conditions.
Key Findings: Eyewitness misinformation susceptibility and recall accuracy across Laboratory, Prolific, and General Online participant groups; the effect of visual perceptual load on recall accuracy.
Citations: 1
-
Authors: CS Kay
Year: 2025
Published in: Behavior Research Methods, 2025•Springer
Institution: Stanford University
Research Area: Behavioral Research Methods
Discipline: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Research Methods
Data collected on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) shows substantial quality issues, with semantic antonym pairs being positively correlated instead of negatively, even after implementing data screening and using high-reputation participants.
Methods: 27 semantic antonym pairs were administered to participants from Connect (N=100), Prolific (N=100), and MTurk (N=400, N=600) to examine response quality and correlation patterns.
Key Findings: The correlation of responses to semantic antonym pairs as an indicator of data quality across different survey platforms.
Citations: 1
Sample Size: 1200
-
Authors: F Joessel, S Denkinger, PE Joessel, CS Green
Year: 2025
Published in: Acta Psychologica, 2025 - Elsevier
Institution: Max Planck Institute, University of Potsdam, University of Maryland, University of Zurich, University of Arizona
Research Area: Online cognitive training, Automated psychological studies, Crowdsourcing, Behavioral Research Methods
Discipline: Psychology
The study introduces a fully online method for conducting cognitive training experiments using Prolific, significantly reducing resource demands while achieving robust results and diverse participant recruitment.
Methods: Participants were recruited via Prolific, assigned to groups using a pseudo-randomized procedure, and completed a 12-hour remote cognitive training study with pre- and post-test assessments monitored via custom dashboards.
Key Findings: Impact of a 12-hour cognitive training intervention on participants' cognitive functions, conducted in a remote and automated manner.
-
Authors: BA Mok, V Viswanathan, A Borjigin, R Singh
Year: 2024
Published in: Behavior Research ..., 2024 - Springer
Institution: Purdue University, University of Pittsburgh
Research Area: Psychoacoustics, Hearing Screening, Behavioral Research Methods
Discipline: Generating formulas is not supported. Please use the Gemini side panel instead.
The study demonstrates that web-based psychoacoustic experiments can produce results comparable to lab-based studies by addressing challenges like hearing screening and headphone standardization.
Methods: Web-based tests using jsPsych and Django for task implementation, Prolific for participant recruitment, hearing screening using a suprathreshold task and survey, and validation against lab-based data.
Key Findings: Classic psychoacoustic phenomena such as fundamental frequency discrimination, gap detection, interaural time delay and level difference sensitivity, word identification, consonant confusion patterns, and co-modulation masking release effect.
Citations: 28
-
Authors: BD Douglas, PJ Ewell, M Brauer
Year: 2023
Published in: Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Institution: University of Alabama, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Florida Atlantic University
Research Area: Social Science Research Methods, Behavioral Research Methods, Data Quality in Crowdsourcing
Discipline: Social Science Research Methods
Citations: 1598
-
Authors: S Zorowitz, J Solis, Y Niv, D Bennett
Year: 2023
Published in: Nature human behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
Institution: Princeton University, Rutgers University, Monash University
Research Area: Research Methodology, Behavioral Research Methods, Experimental Psychology (focus on data quality and spurious correlations)
Discipline: Behavioral Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01640-7
Citations: 110
-
Authors: K Uittenhove, S Jeanneret, E Vergauwe
Year: 2023
Published in: Journal of Cognition, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Institution: University of Lausanne, University of Geneva, EPFL, University of Neuchâtel, NiH
Research Area: Cognitive Psychology, Research Methodology, Behavioral Research Methods, Web-based Behavioral Research
Discipline: Cognitive Research, Psychology
Citations: 83
-
Authors: N Gagné, L Franzen
Year: 2023
Published in: ... Open: the official journal of the ..., 2023 - swisspsychologyopen.com
Institution: Concordia University, University of Lübeck
Research Area: Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, Behavioral Research Methods
Discipline: Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience
Citations: 75
-
Authors: J Tomczak, A Gordon, J Adams, JS Pickering
Year: 2023
Published in: Frontiers in Human ..., 2023 - frontiersin.org
Institution: Prolific, University of Leeds, Gorilla
Research Area: Online Research Protocols, Human Neuroscience, Behavioral Research Methods
Discipline: Human Neuroscience
Citations: 31
-
Authors: K Stanton, RW Carpenter, M Nance
Year: 2022
Published in: Experimental and ..., 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Institution: University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Texas at Austin
Research Area: Psychometric Substance Use Research, Behavioral Research Methods
Discipline: Psychology
Citations: 111
-
Authors: TXF Seow, TU Hauser
Year: 2022
Published in: Behavior research methods, 2022 - Springer
Institution: University College London, Max Planck University College London
Research Area: Behavioral Research Methods, Affective Computing, Web-based Experimentation
Discipline: Human-Computer Interaction
Citations: 23
-
Authors: AR Kochari
Year: 2021
Published in: Journal of cognition, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Institution: NiH
Research Area: Numerical Cognition, Behavioral Research Methods
Discipline: Cognitive Science
Citations: 57
-
Authors: T Matsuura, AA Hasegawa, M Akiyama
Year: 2021
Published in: Proceedings of the 2021 ..., 2021 - dl.acm.org
Institution: Waseda University
Research Area: Phishing Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, Behavioral Research Methods
Discipline: Human-Computer Interaction
Citations: 25
-
Authors: S Connors, K Spangenberg, AW Perkins
Year: 2020
Published in: Journal of ..., 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Institution: University of Guelph, University of Utah, University of Victoria
Research Area: Psychological Measurement, Crowdsourcing, Behavioral Research Methods
Discipline: Behavioral Science
DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00913367.2020.1806155#
Citations: 10
-
Authors: E Kothe, M Ling
Year: 2019
Published in: 2019 - files.osf.io
Institution: Deakin University, Misinformation Lab
Research Area: Behavioral Research Methods, Crowdsourcing, Longitudinal Studies
Discipline: Behavioral Research Methods
Citations: 71
-
Authors: S Palan, C Schitter
Year: 2018
Published in: Journal of behavioral and experimental finance, 2018 - Elsevier
Institution: University of Graz, University of Innsbruck
Research Area: Behavioral Science, Experimental Finance, Online Research Methods
Discipline: Behavioral Science, Experimental Finance, Online Research Methods
Citations: 4482
