Your Account page

Contents:
1. Your Details
3. Payment Methods
4. Account

Your Account page provides access to your personal details, payment information, and account settings. To find it, click the profile icon with your initials at the top of the page when you're logged in.

Your Details

This section displays your personal details that you provided during account registration. This includes:

Name
Date of birth
Country of birth
Place of birth
Email
Phone
Residential address

You can edit your name, email, phone number, and residential address directly from your Account page. Simply click the "Edit" button next to the information you wish to update.

Payment Methods

This section shows the PayPal email address where your Prolific payments will be sent. To change your PayPal address, click the "Edit" button next to it. For more information, see How do I update my cash out email?

Account

From the Account section you can:

View your Prolific ID number This is your unique identifier for studies, which connects your submissions to your account. If a researcher asks for your Prolific ID in a message, you can find it here.
Update your password You can request a password reset email here. You can also update your password from the login page.
Manage your Multifactor authentication Multifactor authentication (MFA) provides an additional security layer for your account during login. You can toggle MFA on or off from this section. For more information about this feature, see Multifactor authentication (MFA)
Close your account Here you can permanently close your Prolific account. Once closed, you will be unable to reopen or recover the account. For more information about account closure, see How do I close my account?

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