Opportunity to earn up to $300 for participating in study about distress in daily life!

If you are an adult and interested in participating in psychological research, you may be eligible for a study that examines how people experience and deal with distress during daily life.

If you participate, you will be involved with this study for about six weeks. We will ask you to visit the TEMPT lab at the University of Arkansas twice. At your first visit, you will complete questionnaires and then we will guide you to download an app to your iPhone or Android smartphone, after which you will respond to prompts from that app multiple times per day for a week. After the first week, you will visit the lab again, where you will be taught information about emotions and a new skill for dealing with feeling upset or distressed in daily life. You will then respond to prompts on the app for two more weeks while living your life, and may be prompted to use the skill if/when you experience distress. Finally, you will complete a few measures online at home every week and one final time at the end of the study, one month after you finish using the app.

You will need reliable Internet service to start this study (i.e., complete questionnaires online and download an app to your phone). Compensation is up to $300 for completing the entire study. You will get $20 for each lab visit, $20 for completing measures at home, and up to $240 for responding to the app prompts on your phone for three weeks, where you must complete 85% of the notifications to receive full payment.

Your time is important to us. You will spend two hours in the lab with an experimenter, and about one hour completing measures at home. You will also spend less than 7 hours over the two week timespan completing brief (2-3 min) measures on your phone multiple times per day (5-7x/day).

If interested, please fill out the screening measure at this link, and we will contact you if you are eligible!

You can also email TEMPTuark@gmail.com for additional information or call/text (479) 345-8099 and ask about the Daily Distress Study.