Psychology Human Participant Pool System - SONA

Would you like to be informed about paid psychology experiments? Psychology researchers often need volunteers to take part in their experiments, and we need to create a mailing list for potential volunteers. This mailing list is managed in SONA, a human participant pool system.

There are many different types of experiment, and you might be asked to fill in a questionnaire, or respond to computer-based stimuli, or even simply play a computer game. Participants often find their experience enjoyable and enlightening. In return, we pay volunteers, normally at a rate of £6 for a one-hour session.

Participants are the lifeblood of our research, and so we would really appreciate it if you would consider requesting an account on SONA to become part of our participant panel. However, there's no need to sign up for this list if you're already a member of the Psychology Department (undergraduate, postgraduate, research student or staff) as your account will be created automatically.

You can join our participant panel by requesting an account. (Please note that account verification may take a day or two).

Please be assured that if you join the participant panel you are not obliged to take part in any experiments. You will be sent emails from time to time about experiments currently being run and you are free to respond to them or not, as you wish.

You can request to have your account removed at any time by emailing: sona-admins-psyc-group@york.ac.uk