Activities that earn points toward the requirement include any combination of the following:
- Online Studies. Online studies involve:
- Going to the SONA website and clicking on the view studies tab.
- Selecting a study in which to participate.
- Participating in the study online.
- Online studies earn 1 SONA point for every 30 minutes (e.g., a 30-minute online study earns 1 SONA point, a 60-minute online study earns 2 SONA points, a 90-minute online study earns 3 SONA points).
- In-Person Studies. In-person studies involve:
- Signing up for a time slot on the SONA website.
- Arriving at the designated laboratory or other campus location at the specified date and time.
- When you arrive for your appointment, the researcher(s) will inform you about the specifics of their study.
- In-person studies earn 1 SONA point for every 30 minutes PLUS an additional 2 points to compensate for limited scheduling opportunities and travel time (e.g., a 30-minute in-person study earns 3 SONA points, a 60-minute in-person study earns 4 SONA points, a 90-minute in-person study earns 5 SONA points).
- Psychology Lectures or Job Talks. Attending psychology lectures or job talks involves:
- Going to the SONA website and signing up to attend a lecture or job talk.
- Attending the lecture and signing the attendance sheet passed around the room.
- Lectures earn 1 SONA point for every 30 minutes (e.g., a 30-minute lecture earns 1 SONA point, a 60-minute lecture earns 2 SONA points, a 90-minute lecture earns 3 SONA points).
- Journal Article Summaries. Writing journal article summaries involves:
- Contacting the psychology advising assistants to obtain approved articles for review. The advising assistants can be reached by emailing them or visiting them during their office hours.
- Reading one or more articles and writing a 1-2 page summaries of them.
- Emailing the completed summaries to the psychology advising assistants. The advising assistants will then grant you points on the SONA website.
- Each article review is worth 2 SONA points.
- Note: The Psychology Department reserves the right to review the article summaries for plagiarism and AI through the of Turnitin and AI detection software. Submission of plagiarized summaries will be treated as other forms of academic integrity violations, i.e., with reporting to the chair and dean, as well as cancellation of any SONA points for the submission.
- Journal Article Annotations. Journal-article annotations involve:
- Contacting the psychology advising assistants to schedule an in-person visit in the main psychology office WH 361.
- At the appointed time, a proctor will provide students with a research article that the student will have to
- read and annotate by underlining three important points from each section (i.e., intro, methods, results, discussion) and
- on a separate sheet of paper, summarize in three paragraphs 1) outlining background, 2) the study, and 3) the implications of the study for the background, using the annotated portions.
- Each article annotation is worth 2 SONA points.
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