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Launch your study to tens of thousands of trusted participants in minutes. Recruit niche or representative samples on-demand. Prolific builds the most powerful and flexible tools for online research.
Launch your study to tens of thousands of trusted participants in minutes. Recruit niche or representative samples on-demand. Prolific builds the most powerful and flexible tools for online research.
Our participant pool is profiled, high quality and fast. The average study is completed in under 2 hours. Filter participants using 250+ demographic screeners (e.g. sex, age, nationality, first language), create custom screeners, or generate a UK/US representative sample.
Female graduates
US nationals
People in full-time employment
UK residents earning over $20,000
Parents who voted leave in the Brexit referendum
Women who are hardcore video gamers
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Use Prolific's unparalleled prescreening system to quickly find niche or nationally representative samples at the click of a button.
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This research showed that Prolific's participants are 1) more honest 2) more internationally diverse and 3) less exposed to common research tasks as compared to participants on other platforms (including MTurk).
Palan & Schitter (2017) recommend Prolific as the dedicated solution for online participant recruitment.
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