The screener has a consent gate, screen-out rules and an attention check, and the decision study puts consent and a scored comprehension check before its task. The experience diary has none of these. Adapt the wording and rules to your study protocol, then test each path before recruiting.
A draft consent gate, a working eligibility branch, and an attention item for a study of online-shopping experiences.
Advanced logic
Consent gate
Screening
Attention check
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In the last 30 days, how often did you shop online?
Choose one
Never1–2 times3–5 times6+ times
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How to run it · Replace the draft consent text with your study information and contact details. This example screens out people with no online purchases in the past 30 days. Adapt that rule, age eligibility, and panel endings before launch.
Pilot an illustrative choice task with a consent gate, scored comprehension checks, a recap branch, and debrief questions.
Advanced logic
Page branching
AND / OR rules
Quiz scoring
Consent gate
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Comprehension check: if you choose the gamble and it fails, what do you receive?
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Nothing from that roundThe certain amount anywayHalf the gamble amount
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How to run it · Replace the draft consent and payout instructions, decide how a round is selected, and implement payment through your own process. Test both comprehension outcomes. The template does not calculate or send bonus payments.
Capture a short account of a recent experience across repeated study waves.
Conditional questions
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When did the experience happen?
Date
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How to run it · Create one survey per wave in a study, reuse a pseudonymous participant ID, and arrange the invitation schedule externally. Do not ask people to recreate distant experiences.
In the screener and the decision study, the gate is a pre-survey consent screen, not a first question: declining does not submit a response at all. That is the behaviour an ethics review asks about, and it is worth testing both paths before recruitment.
Write the exclusion rule down first
Attention checks, timing and straight-line flags are review aids. Decide what a failure means before you see the outcome, keep the original export, and report the rules beside the final sample size.
Test the panel round trip
Before recruiting through Prolific or Connect, test the qualified, screened-out and completed paths. Inspect the captured IDs in the export.