MTurk research: Review and recommendations

H Aguinis, I Villamor, RS Ramani - Journal of Management, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Validity and Mechanical Turk: An assessment of exclusion methods and interactive experiments

KA Thomas, S Clifford - Computers in Human Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Social science researchers increasingly recruit participants through Amazon's Mechanical
Turk (MTurk) platform. Yet, the physical isolation of MTurk participants, and perceived lack of …

Realistic precision and accuracy of online experiment platforms, web browsers, and devices

A Anwyl-Irvine, ES Dalmaijer, N Hodges… - Behavior research …, 2021 - Springer
Due to increasing ease of use and ability to quickly collect large samples, online
behavioural research is currently booming. With this popularity, it is important that …

Common concerns with MTurk as a participant pool: Evidence and solutions

D Hauser, G Paolacci, J Chandler - Handbook of research …, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter discusses common concerns that researchers have with Mechanical Turk
(MTurk), reviewing the evidence that bears upon each concern. It suggests that readers are …

Crowdsourcing consumer research

JK Goodman, G Paolacci - Journal of Consumer Research, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Data collection in consumer research has progressively moved away from traditional
samples (eg, university undergraduates) and toward Internet samples. In the last complete …

Attentive Turkers: MTurk participants perform better on online attention checks than do subject pool participants

DJ Hauser, N Schwarz - Behavior research methods, 2016 - Springer
Participant attentiveness is a concern for many researchers using Amazon's Mechanical
Turk (MTurk). Although studies comparing the attentiveness of participants on MTurk versus …

Conducting clinical research using crowdsourced convenience samples

J Chandler, D Shapiro - Annual review of clinical psychology, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Crowdsourcing has had a dramatic impact on the speed and scale at which scientific
research can be conducted. Clinical scientists have particularly benefited from readily …

The generalizability of survey experiments

KJ Mullinix, TJ Leeper, JN Druckman… - Journal of Experimental …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Survey experiments have become a central methodology across the social sciences.
Researchers can combine experiments' causal power with the generalizability of population …

Are samples drawn from Mechanical Turk valid for research on political ideology?

S Clifford, RM Jewell, PD Waggoner - Research & Politics, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an increasingly popular tool for the recruitment of
research subjects. While there has been much focus on the demographic differences …

Does counter-attitudinal information cause backlash? Results from three large survey experiments

A Guess, A Coppock - British Journal of Political Science, 2020 - cambridge.org
Several theoretical perspectives suggest that when individuals are exposed to counter-
attitudinal evidence or arguments, their pre-existing opinions and beliefs are reinforced …