Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance· 2017Q1
Prolific.ac—A subject pool for online experiments
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Prolific.ac is a new online platform specifically designed for recruiting participants for social and economic science experiments.
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Key points
- Prolific.ac is a new platform for recruiting participants for online experiments.
- It is explicitly targeted at researchers in social and economic sciences.
- The paper discusses the platform's features and historical development.
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Abstract
The number of online experiments conducted with subjects recruited via online platforms has grown considerably in the recent past. While one commercial crowdworking platform – Amazon’s Mechanical Turk – basically has established and since dominated this field, new alternatives offer services explicitly targeted at researchers. In this article, we present www.prolific.ac and lay out its suitability for recruiting subjects for social and economic science experiments. After briefly discussing key advantages and challenges of online experiments relative to lab experiments, we trace the platform’s historical development, present its features, and contrast them with requirements for different types of social and economic experiments.
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