PSYCpool Information for Researchers
PSYCpool is a database of participants from across campus that register to be contacted by Researchers in the Psychology department to participate in studies for pay. These studies typically involve computer tasks (in the lab) or online surveys (on the web) that take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours.
Participants are to receive $5 per 30 minutes of participation or other remuneration of equal value such as movie tickets or entry into a draw for cash or gift certificates. For online studies please provide information to the participant on how they can obtain their remuneration (ie - in the email correspondence and Information Letter).
The PSYCpool database will open for the Spring 2021 in May 2021. The PSYCpool submission form will be available the week of April 19th, 2021 or you can email your requests to regadmin@uwaterloo.ca .
Access to the PSYCpool database is by request to the REG Coordinator. The following information is necessary.
- Researcher(s) name
- Faculty/Supervisor(s) name
- # of proposed studies
- ORE #
- Date of clearance
- If ethics is not submitted yet, date of proposed submission
- # of proposed participants per study
- specific populations (ie - Math students) (if applicable)
- Prescreen Questions (if applicable)
- Question #1
- Question #2
- Question #3
- Question #4
- Question #5
NOTE: If you want to use the PSYCpool database you must have ethical clearance, ie - submit an amendment if access is not currently included on the current protocol application; or have submitted a previous amendment with the request to use PSYCpool. Please make sure that the amendment indicates that you will be recruiting from the PSYCpool database IN ADDITION to the other method of recruitment currently used (unless you want to remove the current recruitment method).