This research study investigates the neural processes underlying how people process, store, and remember visual or auditory information.

Participants ages 18-30 will participate for one 2-hour session involving 1 hour inside the MRI scanner. Participants ages 60-85 will participate for five sessions total, two of them being MRI scans. All five sessions will occur between 7-10 days of each other and scheduling is very flexible.

$15.00/hour for behavioral tasks, $20.00/hour for fMRI scanner tasks.

The study's primary objective is to see how people react to the influences of performance expectancy in Initial Coin Offering (ICO) projects. As a participant in this study, you will be asked to answer 28 questions about your experiences with ICO projects. Then, at the end of the survey, participants will be briefed on the potential correlations between performance expectancy and how this phenomenon influences participants' behaviors toward ICO projects.

The participant will be asked to complete a questionnaire composed of 28 questions about ICO projects during the study. Then, at the end of the survey, participants will be debriefed on the potential correlations between performance expectancy and ICO projects.

This research seeks to better understand functioning in children who differ in symptoms of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), conduct problems (CP), and callous-unemotional (CU) traits, ages 6 - 13. Specifically, this research is being done to find out how these different types of behaviors impact cognitive skills (like attention, impulsivity, working memory, emotion identification) and social functioning to help inform future treatment with these children.

The purpose of this study is to better understand how civilian stereotypes about veterans impact veterans' feelings about themselves and others, and how that influences veteran behavior in the workplace.

This study will examine via ethnographic observation the Story feature on social media. Participants will be asked to provide their Snapchat or Instagram username and must be willing to let the researcher observe the Stories that they post. The primary aims are to illuminate how and why people are using the Story feature on social media, and to analyze how this feature is changing how we relate to and understand the world around us.

This study is recruiting only medical trainees, specifically first- and last-year medical students and nursing students. The study examines how these trainees assess pain during simulated patient interactions. Participants will watch videos of patients experiencing different levels of pain while undergoing functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to monitor brain activity. The goal is to explore the neurological and behavioral processes involved in clinical decision-making

Participants will complete pre-visit questionnaires at home, engage in simulated clinical interactions during a single fMRI session, and fill out post-visit questionnaires immediately after the MRI task. This study is designed to assess their clinical decision-making in response to pain scenarios.

250-400

This study utilizes interview methods to examine factors that influence the exchange of advice and outcomes of advising between adults aged 40+ and their parents aged 65+.

Participate in a single in-person or Zoom interview of 60-90 minutes focused on the exchange of advice between themselves and their parent or adult child.

50.00

The goal of this study is to understand the use of dating apps in emerging adults (ages 18-29 years old). Using an online survey, participants will be asked a series of questions about their well-being, romantic relationship history, and about their use of dating apps.

You will be asked to take a brief, 15-25 minute online survey, and you may be asked to upload a few screenshots from your phone.

This study will examine the relationships among time-of-day, light exposure, and stress markers. Physiological measures of stress will be assessed both in the laboratory using a gold-standard emotion induction task.

This is a week-long study consisting of two in-person visits and five out-of-lab days. During the in-person visits, you will be connected to equipment that measures your physiological data and participate in a task with different sounds. During the out-of-lab days, you will wear a sensor that will collect your physiological data and answer questionnaires.

$135

The purpose of this voluntary research study is to examine how individual differences in emotion regulation patterns are implicated in risk for depression in children and adolescents.

In this study, you will complete some interviews and surveys about you and your child’s mental health history, moods and emotions. We will also have your child complete two brain assessments (EEG and fMRI) at the start of the study, and at 12 and 24 months. You will complete follow-up surveys and interview assessments at 6, 12, 18, and 24 months.

$455

The purpose of this voluntary research study is to understand the impact of maternal depression on child outcomes, such as how children respond to rewarding or positive information in their environment and their mental health outcomes, such as anxiety and depression.

In this study, you will complete some interviews and surveys about your and your child’s mental health history, parenting practices, and stress exposure. We will also have your child complete a few computer tasks while we measure their brain activity. You and your child will also complete a few discussion tasks. These procedures will be completed three times over the course of two years.

360 dollars

The reproducibility, reliability, and validity of saliva collection techniques is an important issue that needs to be addressed to achieve consistency in the emerging field of mitochondrial psychobiology. The objective of the current study is to increase scientific rigor by utilizing robust and well-controlled methods in the collection and testing of saliva samples. Given the non-invasive and convenient nature of saliva collection, it is likely that research using saliva-derived cell-free mitochondrial DNA (cf-mtDNA) will increase. Therefore, to ensure that the results obtained from the current study are trustworthy and meaningful, we are proposing a small, highly controlled randomized study design that will integrate three methods of saliva collection. The study will adopt a rigorous and systematic approach to data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Through the implementation of these methods, we seek to achieve a higher degree of accuracy and reliability in cf-mtDNA saliva-based measurements.

Each participant will be asked to collect 3 randomized saliva samples (i.e., one static Salivette®, one active Salivette®, and either a second active Salivette® or a passive drool) upon awakening for 10 business days. All collection materials be pre-labeled with the day, type of sample, and order to make it easy for participants to quickly and accurately deposit samples upon awakening. Once saliva samples are collected, participants will be asked to promptly return the samples to the provided plastic bag and store the bag in their at-home freezers. All samples will be stored there until the end of the 10-day study. After the saliva is returned to the freezer, participants will complete a short (3-5 min) morning survey on the provided mobile device which has been pre-loaded with the M2C2 application. The morning survey asks questions about sleep, morning outlook, and anticipatory stress and positive experiences. In the evenings, participants will be prompted (via banner notification on screen and audible beep) to complete a slightly longer (8-10 min) survey. This survey asks questions about the respondent’s daily experiences (stressors, mood, physical symptoms). Within the application, there are three brief, objective cognitive tasks. Upon completion of the 10-day protocol, respondents will return the mobile device and saliva samples. Participants may bring all saliva samples back to the lab during regular business hours, or they may schedule a time for a member of the study team to pick up the samples. Depending on the distance between the laboratory and the participant’s home, the need for ice packs will be assessed on an individual basis.

50

This is an ecological momentary assessment study that will examine the relationship between daily events, emotion, and repetitive thinking using a mobile application. The participants will be required to answer 2 minutes questionnaire and monitor their heart rate 8 times a day for 8 consecutive days.

If you are eligible based on the screening survey, there will be one Zoom study session where you will complete a brief videotaped clinical interview to further determine your eligibility to participate in the study. If you are eligible and decide to continue in the study, you will complete a brief questionnaire and be trained on how to complete the study. Starting the next day, you will complete eight 2-minutes questionnaires per day and monitor your heart rate using smartphone application for 8 days.

Up to $20 (Amazon gift card)

In this study, we hope to better understand the neural mechanisms underlying risk for personality disorders in adolescent youth. Understanding who is at risk for personality disorders early in development is important in order to develop preventative interventions.

Youth participants and their parent will be required to attend one in-person visit at our lab in Hershey, PA where youth participants will complete two computer tasks while EEG and cardiac data are collected. Youth participants will also complete questionnaires and a peer-interaction task with another peer their age. Parents will complete questionnaires and an interaction task with their child. Youth participants will complete remote surveys via a survey app for two weeks after the visit. This study includes 4 follow-up appointments (once every 6 months) which can be completed in-person or remotely via a Microsoft Teams meeting. These follow-up appointments will consist of a parent-child interaction task and surveys for parent and youth participants.

Up to $305

Children with attention and behavior problems often need external rewards to motivate them to perform challenging tasks, but we don’t yet know much about how children weigh potential rewards and the effort required to obtain the rewards. This research is being done to find out how children with varying levels of ADHD symptoms value rewards and costs when making decisions about whether or not to perform a difficult task.

There will be one in-person visit. Children will complete two computerized cognitive tasks (thinking games), and will be able to earn prizes from the points they earn on these tasks. Parents will also be asked to complete a few questionnaires that should take about 25 minutes to finish. Children can earn up to $50 in compensation for completing the study.

$50

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between sleep patterns, thoughts, behaviors, and emotions in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In the screening visit, participants will complete a brief interview and questionnaire to determine if they are eligible to participate in our study. Eligible participants will complete additional questionnaires and a training session on study procedures. Following this visit, for the next 7 days, participants will complete daily questionnaires and (for those selected to be in the sleep monitoring group) monitor their sleep by wearing a sleep watch. On day 4, participants will attend a brief compliance check Zoom visit where they will be informed about their overall compliance rate. Participants will be compensated with course credit. Findings from this research may help improve understanding of OCD symptoms and sleep.

Screening Visit: This can be conducted in person or over Zoom. During this visit, we will administer a short questionnaire and an interview to determine if you are eligible to participate in the study. If you are eligible, you will complete questionnaires and a training session on study procedures. You will also receive a sleep watch, which you will be asked to wear consequently for 7 days. This visit will take approximately 1 hour and 25 minutes.7 Day Monitoring: For the next 7 days, you will complete several, brief daily questionnaires (7 questionnaires/per day) on your smartphone. Questionnaires will take place generally every 2 hours starting from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. You will also monitor your sleep by wearing a sleep watch and maintaining a daily sleep diary.Compliance Check (Day 4): On day 4, there will be a 5 minute compliance check Zoom meeting where you will be informed about your overall study compliance rate. Return and Debrief: At the end of the 7 days, you will be asked to return the sleep watch to our lab location (Moore Building) or schedule a pick-up time with a study team member. You will also receive an educational debriefing handout over email.

This study will collect information about the use of gaming communities for social interaction.

Participants will be asked to complete a short survey.

This is a psychological study to examine the effect of a new intervention that provides parents with tools to speak with their kids about race, racism, and privilege.Participants will complete a 2-3 hour long program and answer questionnaires over the course of 6-8 weeks. The total time required for this study is approximately 4.5 hours for parents and 2 hours for children. Parents can earn up to $165 and children can earn up to $50.

Parents and children will both be asked to participate, and all participation will be remote.Over the course of 6-8 weeks, parents will answer 3 sets of questionnaires in addition to completing 2-3 hour long interactive program. Parents will also be asked to participate in a recorded discussion task with their child, and will be invited back for a short interview as the final task.Children will answer 2 sets of questionnaires at the beginning and end of the study, and will also participate in the recorded discussion task with their parents.

215

This focus group study, funded by Penn State's Social Science Research Institute, brings together couples with preschool-aged firstborns who are pregnant with their 2nd child or who have given birth to their 2nd child within the last 12 months. Couples will be interviewed about how they worked together as a team (as coparents) to prepare their firstborn for the birth of the second child and to prepare themselves for 2nd-time parenthood.

This is an interview and survey study that will examine how the design of ICU warning information system influence nurses situation awareness.

This study aims to understand how the design factors of warning information system influence nurse situation awareness in ICUs. You will participate an online interview study and fill out two questionnaires. The study takes 1-2 hours.

$30

Measures of actual human-machine interaction are required to generate ecologically valid, translatable discoveries that enhance human-systems integration and performance. Here, the proposed methods center on human-robot decision tasks to assess key determinants of human trust in robot recommendations (e.g., factors such as threat-salience and/or robot appearance), and the concomitant impacts of trust on performance.

There will be one in person visit, you will be asked to interact with a robot in a virtual environment.

10

This is a drug study for children between 7-12 years old with ADHD that will examine how central nervous system (CNS) stimulants improve anger and irritability in children. It uses only meds that are already FDA approved for ADHD. After intake, families will meet with study doctors to determine an ideal stimulant dose (no placebos in this phase) over 6 visits spaced 1-2 weeks apart. All youth showing improved ADHD and stable or reduced levels of irritability/aggression will advance to a 2 week blinded crossover trial. Participants will complete computer tasks while hooked up to EEG to measure how CNS stimulants impact processing of reward and loss. Participants will complete two EEG visits one week apart - one visit will occur while the child is on the optimal active dose of CNS stimulant from the prior phase, and the other will occur while the child is on a placebo pill. Parents will complete 3 cell phone surveys per day of their child's behavior over these 14 days. This study is expected to take an average of 10 visits over 3 months.

Parent and child will first complete an intake up two hours (30 minutes for child) to verify that child has ADHD and issues with temper problems at home. Then over 6 visits spaced 1-2 weeks apart study doctors will find the best dose of ADHD medication for the child that also helps their anger, with parents filling out weekly ratings of child behavior. All medicines used in the study are already approved to treat ADHD in children and commercially available. At least half of these visits need to occur at the study site at 22 NE Drive in Hershey, PA. For the last two weeks, there will be one in office visit per week at the Hershey office. Children will complete 3 computer games while undergoing EEG testing to measure their brain wave activity. For each of these 14 days, parents will fill out 3 cell phone surveys per day about their child’s behavior. During one of these two weeks, children will take the dose of ADHD medication that worked the best for them. For the other week, it will be replaced with placebo (fake pill). Neither parent or child will know which week is real and which week is fake medication. The total study takes between 10 to 12 visits over an average of 3 months.

child is $100 parent is $105

The purpose of the project is to learn more about reactions to music by adults with and without autism spectrum disorders. Participants will listen to short pieces of music and answer some questions on a computer. They will also complete some formal testing and answer some interview questions.

The purpose of the study is to gain an understanding of students’ experiences in college and their engagement help-seeking and healthy behaviors. Participation in the study involves completing a brief online-survey on Qualtrics, which we anticipate will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.

Citizen journalism refers to production of journalistic content by ordinary citizens such as ‘current affairs-based blogging, photo and video sharing, and posting eyewitness commentary on current events’. In our study we try to redefine ‘citizen journalism’ to ‘crisis reporting’ that includes sharing updates and actionable news using Twitter. To this end we wish to propose a study where we interview people to understand the feasibility of the same. In addition, as supporting data, we would use historical data from Twitter. This would be done keeping in mind a particular event which would be the Texas snowstorm.

The main research goal of this work is to collect drivers’ opinions on autonomous vehicles and their perceptions of time when they ride with autonomous vehicles comparing with manual-driven vehicles.

This clinical trial will test the effects of common flavor chemicals in electronic nicotine delivery systems on brain reward function and nicotine use behaviors.

Subjects completing brain scans: Subjects will attend two in person visits with MRI or NIRS brain scans, where they will complete questionnaires, use e-cigarette devices and complete computer tasks.Subjects not completing brain scans: Subjects will attend two in person visits where they will complete questionnaires, use e-cigarette devices and complete computer tasksAll subjects will take a study E-cigarette device home to use for 10 days between their two in person visits.

If completing brain scans - up to $400; If not completing brain scans - up to $250

The aim of this study is to understand how brain stimulation affects learning of a novel task on a virtual reality system. Participation involves playing virtual reality games during non-invasive brain stimulation.

Single in person visit involving the application of a non-invasive brain stimulation technique during a reaching task in a 2D virtual reality environment.

25

The purpose of this study is to develop a better understanding of the lived experiences of college students of color with psychiatric disabilities, particularly related to the formation of racial identity, disability identity, and the impact of perceived discrimination.

The goal of this study is to learn how young children think and tell stories about challenges between parents and children. Children will play games and tell stories using toys while caregivers fill out surveys and talk to researchers. This will occur twice, about 6 months apart. Qualities of children's stories, their language and regulation skills, demographic information about children and caregivers, and parenting behaviors will be examined.