Specialized Panels

The WBL now covers all online studies for the Wharton School.

For Operations, Information, and Decisions studies and submissions, please contact Mary Spratt.

For all other departments, please contact Susan McCafferty, Sr. Research Coordinator for the Behavioral Lab.

The most frequently used online platforms are Prolific and Cloud Research Connect.

Connect and Prolific

Cloud Research Connect and Prolific are crowd-sourced internet panels. These panels provides access to a large, responsive body of participants at a low cost.  They continue to grow in popularity with experimenters by being a low cost, fast, and reliable source of data.

First steps to run an experiment on Connect or Prolific:

The researcher must submit the following information for approval before running a study. Pre-approved researchers will be given a link for submission.

This information is tracked and the budget reviewed before approval is provided. This information will also be used for the reimbursement process. The WBL reimburses for approved HITs only.

1. Title
2. Research Project Title
3. IRB #
4. Faculty contact
5. Panel (Prolific, Connect, etc.)
6. Approximate Cost
7. Total # of participants
8. Payment per participant
9. Who prepaid for the study and should be reimbursed
10. Specific information regarding who will be sharing the cost – budget info re: applicable grants, Darts accts, etc. and the 26-digit Penn budget code

For OID studies, you will also be asked to provide information regarding bonuses and condition.

Reimbursements

If a researcher is seeking reimbursement for studies run on Connect or Prolific they should submit the above information along with the following documentation to Susan McCafferty.

Prolific:

• Download the Detailed Summary
• Top-up email of prepaid HITs or download the paid invoice from the Finance tab

Connect:

• Screenshots of both the batch details and the “View Details” section of the batch, which breaks down total costs
• Screenshots of the credit card payments or the Connect Transaction History