Application to recruit students from the Psych 125 Subject Pool
All experiments undergo a formal approval process to be able to recruit participants from the Psych 125 Subject Pool via the following Subject Pool Application. Access is not typically granted for people outside of the St. Olaf Psychology Department. Please see Our Commitments to our Participants for some of our departmental research values.
Some important information for applying for access to the Psych 125 Subject Pool:
- IRB: All studies must be reviewed according to the guidelines defined by the college. Make sure you have gone through the appropriate level of IRB review before starting any study. The St. Olaf IRB procedures may be found here. An IRB approval date will be needed to complete the Subject Pool Application
- Contacting Students: All studies offered for credit MUST be posted to the Subject Pool Moodle site for that semester. Researchers may NOT email the classes directly, and all communication before participants sign up will be through Moodle.
- Study Names: All studies will have a clear study name that will be used on ALL recruiting materials including those that students see. If you need to change your recruiting title after you have been approved, please email us at subject-pool-admin@stolaf.edu to let us know.
- Number of Participants: Use REALISTIC estimates of subject numbers in your request… we need accurate targets to know how many studies to approve. Do not over inflate these estimates here as it can have an adverse impact on the pool.
- Recruiting Description: All studies will have a clear recruiting description that we will post on Moodle for students to sign up. Once approved you will not be able to change this description without approval from the subject pool administrators. This should include a description of the time the study will entail, the number of credits participants will receive, and how participants will sign up for the study. If you are using a google document or spreadsheet for students to use to sign up, please include that as well.
- Debriefing Document: All studies must have an educational debriefing. This will be a half- to one-page summary of your study with (1) a narrative description of what you did, why, how it relates to the literature or broader theories and what you expect to find, (2) the educational benefits Psych 125 students will gain from their experience as participants and (3) at least 1 citation of an article from the primary literature that your study is based on (in APA format). [Note: The purpose of this debriefing material is to make sure that participants can relate the study back to major theories or course content learned in Psych 125, in addition to being properly debriefed after the research. Therefore, this statement is REQUIRED for access to this subject pool, even if your study does not require a debriefing as determined by the IRB.]