Labs at the St. George campus have the opportunity to use the PSY100 Participant Pool for research studies. This page contains all the information you need to apply for access to the PSY100 Participant Pool.
Access is granted on a semester by semester basis. If you wish to renew a previously approved package, please refer to the instructions below.
How to Access to the PSY100 Participant Pool
To apply follow these steps:
- Please read this
Principles and Procedures For Using the PSY100 Pool carefully to determine if you are eligible to use the PSY100 Participant Pool. Researchers are required to read the Principles and Procedures For Using the PSY100 Pool before submitting their application package to the PSY100 office for approval. All personnel who will be involved in testing PSY100 participants must read this document.
- Submit a signed PSY100 Pool Contract.pdf by the faculty supervisor and all personnel who will interact with PSY100 participants, affirming they have read all the relevant material and have agreed to comply with the PSY 100 Participant Pool Procedures. Email signed contracts to the PSY100 pool coordinator at psy100.experiments@utoronto.ca. One contract is sufficient to cover all experiments in a laboratory, but each experimenter MUST sign the contract. If additional experimenters join the lab after you have submitted the original contract they must sign and submit an amendment to the contract.
- To create an account on the SONA web system follow the instructions available in the Principles and Procedures For Using the PSY100 Pool. Once your SONA account is setup email the following material to the PSY100 pool coordinator at psy100.experiments@utoronto.ca.
- A copy of the Participant Consent Form approved by the Human Ethics Committee.
- If recruiting participants by phone, a copy of your phone script approved by the Human Ethics Committee.
- A copy of your Ethics
- A copy of the approval form for your study from the Human Ethics Committee.
- An approved Debriefing Letter.
- A copy of the six questions and answers used to test participants.
- An Application Checklist.pdf.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Other than the contract (#3 above), the application process is paperless. That is, all materials are submitted electronically either over the SONA system or via email to psy100.experiments@utoronto.ca. No hard copies will be accepted. Submitting hard copies may result in considerable delays, as we will not be checking the physical mailbox with any regularity.To renew an experiment that was approved in a previous term, please email the coordinator your request, your ethics approval must not have expired, if it has, please send the pool coordinator an up to date ethics approval letter.
Other Information and Forms:
- Student Receipt of Participation.pdf - All participants must receive a Receipt of Participation for in person studies. This is the participant's proof of participation.