Study setup and management
105 articles
- How to use custom screening to recruit specific participants
- How do I choose who takes my study?
- Bring your own participants
- How to create and manage participant groups
- How do I use Prolific's filters?
- How do I balance my sample within demographics?
- What are representative samples on Prolific
- Using representative samples on Prolific - FAQs
- How can I invite specific participants to my study?
- How can I prevent specific participants from accessing my study?
- Can I screen participants within my study?Learn when to screen out participants in a study on Prolific and how to do it correctly.
- What are deprecated screening questions?Learn what happens when prescreening questions are deprecated or removed, and how to keep your studies running smoothly.
- How to recruit eligible participants using filters and sub-conditions
- How do I run a pilot study on Prolific?
- Can I run studies simultaneously (concurrently)?
- How do I prescreen for participants who are fluent in multiple languages?
- Custom completion codes
- How do I run studies with couples?
- How do I run a diary study or ESM (Experience Sampling Method) study?
- Can I randomly assign participants to conditions on Prolific?
- How do I run video interviews & focus groups?Run interview and focus group studies on Prolific with guidance on recruitment, scheduling, and payment.
- Can I run studies that deceive participants?
- Can I run dyadic studies on Prolific?
- How to run longitudinal studies
- Pausing & stopping a study
- How do I increase places on a study?
- How long does it take to recruit participants for my study?
- Can I change any details of my study after it is published?
- Can I adjust how much my study pays?
- What if a participant has reported that they can't access my study?
- How does study feedback work?
- How to update your study description after publishing
- Submission statuses explained
- How do I prevent AI-generated responses in my study?
- Approving, rejecting, and returning submissions
- Exporting Prolific demographic data
- Matching data between Prolific and your external study software
- Participants are completing my study with 'NOCODE' or the wrong completion code
- My participants don't match the prescreening I selected
- How do I report data quality concerns to you?How to report data quality concerns or suspicious participants to Prolific, and what happens after you report.
- Why do I have missing data?
- Why do I have more participants than requested?
- A participant took the study with an incompatible device
- Can I ask a participant to redo their submission?
- Who should I reject?
- How do I reject or return a submission?
- How do I approve and pay a participant?
- Submission approval rules and timeframes
- Understanding the Limitations of reCAPTCHA Bot Detection in Research
- Bulk rejecting exceptionally fast submissions
- What to do with flagged responses?