Unlocking Insights into Prolific: Research Implications, Participant Behavior and Motivations

Authors: B Aksoy, S Nevo

Published: 2025

Publication: Participant Behavior and Motivations (March 21 ..., 2025 - papers.ssrn.com

Research on Prolific reveals that participant compensation significantly impacts sample selection, potentially introducing biases, and offers insights into participant motivations and behavior to improve study reliability and design.

Methods: A carefully designed experiment was performed to analyze correlations between participants' reservation wages, socioeconomic attributes, and study compensations; sensitivity analyses were conducted for further guidance.

Key Findings: Participant reservation wages, socioeconomic attributes, perceptions of general behavior and motivations, and implications of study design decisions.

Institution: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Research Area: Crowdsourcing Research, Participant Behavior

Discipline: Computational Social Science

Citations: 3