Conducting Research
All research at the University of Waterloo must first receive ethics approval. Once you have approval you can begin looking for participants. While most studies draw participants from the Research Experience Group (REG), other source include Mechanical Turk and lab specific participant pools.
Research groups
A list of research labs and their websites.
Clinical
- Anxiety Studies (Christine Purdon & David Moscovitch)
- Centre for Mental Health Research
- Child and Adolescent Neuropsychology Lab (Tara McAuley)
- Cognitive Development Lab (Elizabeth Nilsen)
- Psychological Intervention Research Team (PIRT) (Jonathan Oakman)
- Relationship Research Lab (Uzma Rehman)
- Self-Attitudes Lab (Allison Kelly)
- Whole Family Lab (Dillon Browne)
Cognitive
- Besner Lab (Derek Besner)
- Cognition and Natural Behaviour Laboratory (Evan Risko)
- Memory , Attention, and Cognition Lab (MACL; Colin McLeod)
- Reasoning and Decision Making Lab (Jonathan Fugelsang)
Cognitive neuroscience
- Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (Myra Fernandes)
- Event Related Potential Lab
- Gambling Research Lab
- Neurological Patient Database
- Waterloo Research in Aging Pool (WRAP)
- Urban Realities Laboratory
- Vision and Attention Lab (Daniel Smilek)
Developmental
- Centre for Child Studies (Daniela O'Neill)
- Child Cognition Lab (Ori Friedman)
- Developmental Learning Lab (Stephanie Denison)
- Lab for Infant Development and Language (Katherine White)
- Social Development Lab (Heather Henderson)
The Lab for Infant Development and Language and the Developmental Learning Lab together form the Infant Studies group.
Industrial/Organizational
Social
- Diversity and Intergroup Relations Lab (Hilary Bergsieker)
- Experimental Science of Human Motivations and Relations (Ian McGregor)
- Self-Regulation and Motivation Lab (Abigail Scholer)
- Wisdom and Culture Lab (Igor Grossmann)