Normative face recognition ability test scores vary across online participant pools.

ABSTRACT: Online participant recruitment is a cornerstone of modern psychology research. While this offers clear benefits for studying individual differences in cognitive abilities, test performance can vary across lab-based and web-based settings. Here we assess the stability of normative test scores across popular online recruitment platforms and in-person testing, for three standard measures of face identity processing ability: the GFMT2, CFMT+ , and MFMT. Participants recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) scored approximately 10 percentage points lower in all tests compared to those recruited through Prolific and university students tested in the lab. Applying stricter exclusion criteria based on attention checks resulted in notably higher exclusion rates for the MTurk group (~ 62%) compa

SUBMITTER: Popovic B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11909149 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature