The impact of ‘imposter participants’ on psychology research: A supervisor and supervisee’s experience

Imposter participants pose a significant challenge to recruiting participants in online research across disciplines. This is a time-consuming challenge for researchers and has implications for data integrity. We encourage researchers to consider these challenges when designing online studies and to include rigorous ways to check a participant is genuine and eligible to participate in their study. We also encourage a broader discussion around online research and the possible implication of this on our profession.