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ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Accelerate your research with rapid, quality responses

Studies show that Prolific participants pay more attention and give honest, fuller answers.

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MARKET AND USER RESEARCH

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POLICY RESEARCH

Collect impactful data for public policy research

Conduct reliable, ethical, and timely research to drive evidence-based public policy planning.

Find out what the world really thinks with reliable poll results for the questions that matter.

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Redefining environmental decision-making

High-quality insights from Prolific participants enabled researchers at Columbia University to explore how people make choices when fighting climate change.

Breaking ground in speech perception

Wellesley College used Prolific to uncover surprising findings on speech perception that could have a profound impact on hearing loss intervention.

Benchmarking LLM emotional intelligence

Researchers at the University of Bristol used Prolific to test whether AI can match human judgment in evaluating emotional life events.

Running complex longitudinal studies

Prolific enabled researchers at the University of New Mexico to achieve a 90% completion rate of surveys across a challenging 30-day study.

Delivering the highest data quality since 2014

Learn how Prolific prevents fraud, combats agentic AI, and sets the quality standards for data collection.

Why Prolific’s data quality is superior

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How we detect bots and AI agents

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Inside our data quality system

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