Launch and Manage

Once your study is approved, Testable Minds manages the session lifecycle, from participant sign-up through completion and approval.

Studies vs sessions

Term	Meaning
Study	Your overall recruitment posting (target N, pay rate, criteria)
Session	One participant’s assignment to that study

A study contains many sessions. Each session has its own status.

Session statuses

Status	Description
Pending	Participant has signed up but not yet started
Active	Participant has started the experiment
Expired	Participant did not complete within the participation time limit
Completed	Participant finished and submitted results
Screened out	Participant was excluded by screener logic
Rejected	You rejected the submission
Approved	You approved the submission; payment is released

Launching multiple sessions at once

You can open multiple parallel sessions (e.g. recruit 10 participants simultaneously rather than sequentially). Participants who have been allocated to any session of a study are automatically excluded from its other sessions, preventing the same person from completing it twice.

External studies

If your experiment is hosted elsewhere (not on Testable), you can still use Testable Minds recruitment by configuring an external study:

• Completion code: provide your external platform’s completion code, which Testable Minds shows to participants on finishing.
• Redirect URL: configure a URL to send participants back to after completion.

Submitting for review

After sessions close, or at any point you choose, submit the batch for review in the Minds dashboard. This triggers the approval workflow.

Tip

The review submission is separate from study submission. Submit the study first to recruit; submit the batch later to approve or reject individual participants.

Approving and rejecting participants

You have 48 hours from session completion to approve or reject each participant.

• Approve: releases payment to the participant.
• Reject: withholds payment; you must provide a reason. Rejections should only be made for documented quality issues (e.g. submitted near-zero RTs, incomplete form responses, obvious non-engagement).

After 48 hours, Testable automatically approves any pending submissions.

Caution

The average rejection rate across Testable Minds is approximately 5%. Unusually high rejection rates may trigger a review of your study.

Bonus payments

You can send a bonus payment to individual participants directly from the Minds dashboard, for example to reward particularly careful completion or to compensate for technical issues.

Messaging participants

Use the messaging feature to contact individual participants within the platform:

Do:

• Clarify a task instruction issue
• Notify a participant of a technical problem
• Thank participants for especially thorough responses

Do not:

• Ask for personal contact information
• Contact participants outside the Minds platform
• Discuss payment disputes outside the official workflow

Next steps

• Onsite and Hybrid Studies: run Testable Minds studies in person
• Payments and Credits: understand how billing works
• FAQ: common questions about the platform