To participate in psychology research some studies may require participants to be at least 18 years of age. If a study requires a participant to obtain parental permission prior to participating, please contact the researcher directly for a consent form. Please note: if you are a UCCS Student who is not at least 18 years of age, you may participate in psychology research without parental permission as long as the study is of “minimal risk”, any study with greater than minimal risk requires parental permission.

Research extra credit is accepted in psychology courses based on an individual instructor’s policy. To learn about the extra credit policy for a specific course, please ask the instructor who teaches the course.

Beginning summer 2008! Participants may carry over any unused extra credit from semester to semester by assigning any points they do not wish to put toward a course in the current semester to the “Extra Credit Bank”. In order to assign points to the “Extra Credit Bank” each participant must add the “Extra Credit Bank” as one of their courses. Any points assigned to the “Extra Credit Bank” will carry forward from semester to semester until the points are assigned to a specific course.

It is the participant’s responsibility to assign the extra credit they have earned to the course that they would like the points allocated. All extra credit must either be assigned to the “Extra Credit Bank” or the course of choice no later than the day before finals begin each semester. Any points not assigned to the “Extra Credit Bank” or to a course will be permanently deleted from the system at the end of each semester.

Participating in research is a privilege. If you sign up for a study you must show up or cancel the participation. If you fail to cancel your participation before the deadline you will be marked as a no-show. If you receive two no-shows, you will be barred from participating in further studies for the semester.

Important reminders and other SONA system announcements will be sent to the email address you provided upon creating your SONA account. To ensure that you receive SONA emails, please add uccs-admin@sona-systems.net and epettij2@uccs.edu to your safe sender list. You are responsible for information sent to the email account you provided regarding your SONA account.

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