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. 2018 Jun 21;9:998. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00998

Table 1.

Prevalence of manipulation checks of different types in various psychology journals from January 2015 to February 2016.

JEP: Gen PS JPSP: ASC PSPB JESP Total
Number of empirical papers 110 194 35 140 135 614
Number (%) with at least one manipulation check 24 (22%) 29 (15%) 22 (63%) 58 (41%) 71 (53%) 204 (33%)
Number (%) that had a verbal manipulation check 21 (19%) 24 (12%) 19 (54%) 55 (39%) 69 (51%) 188 (31%)
Number (%) that had a verbal manipulation check and did not manipulate question order 19 (17%) 21 (11%) 19 (54%) 52 (37%) 69 (51%) 180 (29%)