Evaluating Reddit as a Crowdsourcing Platform for Psychology Research Projects

• Published in: Teaching of psychology Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 329 - 337
• Main Authors: Luong, Raymond, Lomanowska, Anna M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.10.2022; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Crowdsourcing; Data Collection; Ethnicity; Internet; Motivation; Psychological research; Psychological Studies; Psychology; Questionnaires; Recruitment; Research Methodology; Research Projects; Resistance (Psychology); Sample size; Social Characteristics; Social Media; Social networks; MTurk; crowdsourcing; Reddit; participant pool; r/SampleSize; online sample; online recruitment

Background: Online crowdsourcing platforms, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), have become popular alternatives to the ubiquitous student samples used in psychology research. r/SampleSize, an alternative pool on the website Reddit, allows for online participant recruitment without compulsory or...