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Comparing attentional disengagement between Prolific and MTurk samples
Scientific Reports, 2023 Attention often disengages from primary tasks in favor of secondary tasks (i.e., multitasking) and task-unrelated thoughts (i.e., mind wandering). We assessed whether attentional disengagement, in the context of a cognitive task, can substantially differ
Derek A. Albert, Daniel Smilek
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Distinction without a difference? An assessment of MTurk Worker types [PDF]
Research & Politics, 2020 Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform is a popular tool for scholars seeking a reasonably representative population to recruit subjects for academic research that is cheaper than contract work via survey research firms.
Eric Loepp, Jarrod T. Kelly
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MTurk Research: Review and Recommendations [PDF]
Journal of Management, 2020 The use of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) in management research has increased over 2,117% in recent years, from 6 papers in 2012 to 133 in 2019. Among scholars, though, there is a mixture of excitement about the practical and logistical benefits of using MTurk and skepticism about the validity of the data.
Herman Aguinis +2 more
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Frustration and ennui among Amazon MTurk workers
Behavior Research Methods, 2022 AbstractAcademics are increasingly turning to crowdsourcing platforms to recruit research participants. Their endeavors have benefited from a proliferation of studies attesting to the quality of crowdsourced data or offering guidance on managing specific challenges associated with doing crowdsourced research.
Craig Fowler, Jian Jiao, Margaret Pitts
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Assessing the quality and reliability of the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) data in 2024 [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceAmazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has been one of the most popular platforms for online research in psychology and the social sciences in general. While concerns about MTurk data quality have been raised, the platform continues to be widely used.
Hagar Shimoni, Vadim Axelrod
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Normative face recognition ability test scores vary across online participant pools [PDF]
Scientific ReportsOnline participant recruitment is a cornerstone of modern psychology research. While this offers clear benefits for studying individual differences in cognitive abilities, test performance can vary across lab-based and web-based settings.
B. Popovic +3 more
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Data From the MTurk Parent eHealth Preference Survey: Mental Health Symptoms, Psychosocial Correlates, Service Use, and Preferences [PDF]
Journal of Open Psychology DataThe MTurk Parent eHealth Preference Survey aimed to examine parents’ preferences for eHealth program features as well as their attitudes and preferences towards three programs: AbilitiCBT, Triple P Online, and BEAM.
Charlie Rioux +4 more
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Journal of Medical Internet ResearchBackgroundResearchers have many options for web-based survey data collection, ranging from access to curated probability-based panels, where individuals are selectively invited to join based on their membership in a representative
Patricia M Herman +11 more
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Interactive Journal of Medical ResearchBackgroundSurveys of internet panels such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) are common in health research. Nonresponse in longitudinal studies can limit inferences about change over time. ObjectiveThis study aimed to
Nabeel Qureshi +2 more
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Health Behavior Research, 2021 Understanding the beliefs about social distancing behaviors is required to inform 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) interventions that are based on theory, research, and evidence. This study investigated the salient beliefs related to social distancing.
Christopher Owens +4 more
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