ArticleThe American psychologist2024
A quasi-experimental study examining the efficacy of multimodal bot screening tools and recommendations to preserve data integrity in online psychological research.
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- Will online behavioral research follow the fate of online survey research?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Yes stormtrooper, these are the droids you are looking for: Identifying and preliminarily evaluating bot and fraud detection strategies in online psychological research.Psychological methods · 2025Article
- Anticholinergics, executive function, and cognitive/behavioral changes in Down syndrome.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- Imposters, Bots, and Other Threats to Data Integrity in Online Research: Scoping Review of the Literature and Recommendations for Best Practices.Online journal of public health informatics · 2025Review
- Assessment of the care experience during medical transition for transgender and gender diverse people in France: results from the PREMIUM study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- From rejection by others to affirmation of self: Understanding the dynamics of cissexism-based stress, resilience factors, and suicidal ideation among bi+ transgender and gender diverse adults.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2025Article
- Associations Among Online Social Reactions to Disclosure of Sexual Victimization, Coping and Social Isolation.Journal of child sexual abuse · 2024Article
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Abstract
Bots are automated software programs that pose an ongoing threat to psychological research by invading online research studies and their increasing sophistication over time. Despite this growing concern, research in this area has been limited to bot detection in existing data sets following an unexpected encounter with bots. The present three-condition, quasi-experimental study aimed to address this gap in the literature by examining the efficacy of three types of bot screening tools across three incentive conditions ($0, $1, and $5). Data were collected from 444 respondents via Twitter advertisements between July and September 2021. The efficacy of five
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