Dates: Winter 2025 Semester

Deadline to request hours for Winter 2025 semester: January 5, 2025.

Participants may be tested for credit from January 7, 2025 to April 9, 2025

Testing Participants in PREP

Researchers who would like to test participants in PREP have five simple steps to complete. All relevant forms can be found here.

1.  Obtain approval from ICEHR to test PREP participants in your experiment(s). This application or amendment should include (templates can be found on the new study application form):

• PREP Informed Consent Form
• Sona Study Description
• Feedback Sheet

2.  Request an account for the Sona website. This should be done by faculty members and any researchers in their labs who will be testing PREP participants, including graduate and undergraduate students and research assistants. Note that faculty members are responsible for all researchers in their labs. To do this, read the documentation and submit the form here.

3. Request a new study in PREP. This should be done for any ICEHR approved studies you wish to post in PREP. You can submit a new study request here. You will need to be prepared to upload your Consent Form, Feedback Sheet, and ICEHR approval letter. Templates and examples can be found on the study request form.

4.  Request PREP Hours for the upcoming semester by the current deadline. Only faculty members in the Psychology Department may request PREP hours, and hours will only be allocated to faculty members.  It is the responsibility of each faculty member to request enough hours for everyone (students, RAs, etc.) in his/her lab. Please note that you may not receive the number of hours requested, depending on the number of students and researchers involved in PREP in a given semester. Hours can be requested by responding to the email notice sent out to the department ahead of the upcoming semester.

5.  Create your study in Sona, following the instructions provided in the Sona Documentation. Use the link in the system to request visibility.

Please note that hours must be requested prior to the start of the semester (see current deadline above), but new study requests and new account requests can be submitted at any time.

Studies for Pay

Researchers who would like to post their pay studies in the Sona website must first have an account to access Sona (see above). Principal Investigators do not need to request hours for pay studies and participants may be tested at any time. To post your pay study, complete the same new study request form as for a credit study. Then simply create the study in Sona and use the link in the system to request visibility.