Prolific - a fantastic research website with interesting studies. Read on to find out more!

Prolific

One of the best and most interesting sites I have discovered is Prolific and if you aren’t already a member I urge you to join! The assignments are really interesting, the minimum payout is £5 to either Paypal or Circle (sign up to circle and send £25 in the first two weeks and earn £5!).


With Prolific you also have the option to fund raise or donate your credits to charity which I find absolutely fantastic.

So, how do you get started? Here's a simple and quick run down on how to get started with Prolific

1.) Sign up – visit the Prolific Website by clicking HERE and create an account. It’s really important to sign up as a PARTICIPANT and not a researcher, as you want to take part in the studies offered (unless of course you are a researcher). You need to sign up and verify your account, follow the steps to do this as they are quite straight forward – if not please do comment below, or get in touch.

2.) Prescreening - you must complete all the prescreening questions, in order to be offered relevant studies otherwise they won’t know what to send you. Often there are extra prescreening questions, make sure these are always up to date. You can of course leave questions out if you wish but you will not get relevant studies in that area sent to you, and you can of course always opt out.

You can find the prescreening questions under the account section, once you click on it you will find lots of questions to answer and it takes about 15 minutes, it’s worth it though!

3.) You are all set up! Simple, right? Now it’s time to have a look for some studies! Check back to the ‘studies’ tab and see if you are eligible for any. The great thing about Prolific as a whole is that you are only offered studies you qualify for as a general rule of thumb, so always make sure you have completed the prescreening questions. 

It might be worth doing a demo study if it's available to you as a practice run.

4.) What next?

Keep checking in for studies. Prolific very RARELY sends you an email. It’s up to you to keep checking in.

TOP TIP!

I work from home, when I’m at home I regularly have the laptop or desktop on in the background. I’ve downloaded a handy little assistant for Prolific aptly called Prolific Assistant which can be downloaded onto chrome. Make sure once it’s downloaded it’s attached to your Prolific account by logging in, and highlight the ‘announce’ button. It will scan through every few seconds (you can select how many seconds by clicking on ‘check interval’ tab and adjusting to your requirement) . It will then notify you when a study is available. It isn't completely fool proof but it's certainly helps! There is also another extension called Distill which is similar. I find Prolific Assistant fabulous though and highly recommend it.

If you do not have this option it's just a question of checking into the site as and when you remember. Why not set up a reminder on your phone? If you don’t want to download prolific assistant onto chrome, or you cannot for some reason then it’s just a question of keeping checking into the site as studies can fill up fast.

Enjoy and good luck!

Prolific is a fantastic site and I highly recommend it.

Sign up to Prolific now – join here.