Foundations of Personality Research Study

The WAVES Emotional Lab in Florida Atlantic University’s Department of Psychology is recruiting infants and mothers for a new research study focused on how babies’ brain wave activity is related to their emerging personalities.

This research study is being conducted at three universities across the United States. In addition to local family participating at Florida Atlantic University, other families are participating at Washington State University and at Virginia tech.

Participate in the Study

Participation involves seven “visits“ with us between the time your infant is 2 and 24 months of age. Babies must be less than 6 months old to participate. We are recruiting infants who were born full term, with no prenatal or birth complications. If you plan to stay in the greater Southeast Florida area until your baby is 24 months of age and are interested in participating, book an appointment.

Visit No.	Infant Age	Study Stage and Compensation
1	0 - 2 months	Online questionnaires and you will receive a $25 gift card.
2 - 6	6 - 18 months	The next five visits will be in our research lab. These are 60-90 min visits where your infant will play games with us while wearing a little sensor cap to collect brain-wave activity (EEG). The sensor cap is a completely safe recording of the brain’s electrical activity. Your infant will sit on your lap and in a highchair beside you during the visit. You would complete online questionnaires at each visit. You will receive $50 gift cards for lab visits between 6 and 10 months and $75 gift cards for visits between 12 and 18 months.
7	24 months	The final visit at 24 months focuses on questionnaires, an interview, and your child will play some games with us. You will receive $100 gift cards for the final visit.

 

Participants will receive a gift card for every visit to our FAU Jupiter or Boca campus laboratory ($50-$100), up to ($375-$450) depending on the number of completed visits.

CALENDLY LINK:

https://calendly.com/waveslaboratory/baby-bear-study-information?month=2024-09

CONTACT US

Lab Coordinator
• • Samantha Gott: sgott2016@fau.edu
  • waveslab@fau.edu

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/waveslab

 

TESTIMONIAL

“My son and I participated in the Baby Bear study from the time he was two months old until he turned 2. The lab sessions were about half an hour long and included accompanying questionnaires. It was fascinating to see how my son reacted to the lab activities throughout the length of the study. We were both always super comfortable in the lab and the lab assistants took great care with explaining everything that they were doing.

The study incentives were highly motivating and greatly appreciated. We kept several momentos from our participation including certificates and a small Baby Bear stuffed animal. 

Given the opportunity, I would love to participate again if I had another child. I would highly recommend this experience to anyone who is curious about their child’s emotional development, and wants to take part in a fun bonding activity.”