Participant Incentives

Meet Sherry, one of over 1,000 StudyResponse incentive winners.

Sherry won a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com and used it to purchase these three books.

Sherry has given us special permission to use her photograph on this site. The StudyResponse project keeps all participant information confidential.

All StudyResponse studies offer at least one random-draw incentive for participation and many studies have more than one incentive.

Amount
Most incentives range between $50 and $250, and are gift certificates from Amazon, an online marketplace.

International Participants
International participants can receive gift certificates from Amazon.uk, Amazon,de, Amazon.fr or another international Amazon site. Incentives are funded by the academic researchers who use StudyResponse for their research, but are administered by the StudyResponse project at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.

Selection
Selection of winning research participants is based on a seeded random number selection among all respondents who elected to participate in a study within one week of the final recruitment message. No purchase is ever necessary for participation in any random draw conducted by StudyResponse.

Past Winners
Over time, we have awarded more than 1,700+ incentives with an accumulated value in excess of $60,000. We now have winners from almost every U.S. state plus the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Estonia, Kuala Lumpur, India, Philippines, and New Zealand.

Because the incentives are generally awarded on the basis of a random draw, there is no way for us to guarantee that every StudyResponse panelist will be selected to receive an incentive.

There are a few things you can do to maximize your chances of being a winner:

Check your email account at least once a week.
Studies are typically administered in one week increments, and if you don't check your email every week you may miss an opportunity to respond to a study.
Make a note if the study provides reminder e-mails.
If you like to procrastinate (and who doesn't?), make a careful note of whether a study will provide a reminder. Some studies do, in which case you'll have another chance to respond in one week. Other studies have no reminder, and will close after a week. Our email invitation message to you always spells this out.
Always take pre-screening surveys.
If you receive an invitation from us to take a brief survey assessing your eligibility for a future study, take it! Even if you are not eligible for the future study, you may obtain an incentive just from doing one of these eligibility assessments.
Participation is optional.
Our research ethics agreements ensure that you are never obligated to participate in a study. If, however, you receive many invitations from us to participate and you never respond to any of them, it is likely that our system will decide that your email address is dead or that our messages to you are ending up in the junk mail box.
Tell the truth.
If you decide to respond to a study, do so to the best of your abilities. Too much missing data in a survey makes your response unusable to the researchers. Researchers also have sophisticated ways of detecting junk data. If your responses to a survey are bogus or you leave large parts of the survey blank, your participation in the study will be wasted.

Here's just a small sample of recent winners:

$35 Amazon Gift Certificate: Janie B. (Canada)
$35 Amazon Gift Certificate: Brad B. (IN)
$35 Amazon Gift Certificate: Stacy P. (OH)
$40 Amazon Gift Certificate: Cindy W. (WA)
$45 Amazon Gift Certificate: Aaron U. (WI)
$45 Amazon Gift Certificate: John G. (IL)
$45 Amazon Gift Certificate: Marsha K. (Canada)
$45 Amazon Gift Certificate: Kate D. (Canada)
$45 Amazon Gift Certificate: Chhann H. (GA)
$50 Amazon Gift Certificate: Allan S. (NB)
$53 Amazon Gift Certificate: Wes G. (Phillipines)
$53 Amazon Gift Certificate: Diego B. (VA)
$53 Amazon Gift Certificate: Kristin G. (Canada)
$60 Amazon Gift Certificate: Roberta C. (NY)
$90 Amazon Gift Certificate: Kathryn K. (Canada)