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If you are interested in hearing more information about these studies or are wanting to participate, please contact us by phone at (352) 340-1680 or (352) 273-2134 or by email at psy-ebnerlab@psych.ufl.edu.

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Studies Currently Recruiting

Blink and Bluff Study

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  • The focus of this study is to understand how people can deceive and detect deception in others using eye tracking technology.
  • This study includes: a Zoom session, online survey package, and 1 on-campus session. Participants will be compensated at the end of the study. For this study, we are currently recruiting men and women between the ages of 18-35 or 60-85.
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Train Your Brain Study

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  • The focus of this study is to learn how you make decisions.
  • This study includes: 4 on-campus MRI sessions and 1 on-campus non-MRI session. Participants will be compensated at the end of the study. For this study we are currently recruiting adults aged 18-100.
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OxyAging Study

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  • Have you ever tried opioids (recreationally, prescription, or otherwise)? This project examines the effects of oxytocin and oxycodone on decision-making and behavior.
  • This study includes 6 in-person sessions. Participants will be compensated for study completion. This study is currently recruiting women and men between the ages of 45-85 years old.
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Past Studies

  • Florida Consortium Study (FLORT)
    • The focus of this study was to identify neural, physiological and behavioral mechanisms of trust-based decision making in underrepresented and clinical populations.
  • Deciding Brain Study
    • The focus of this study was to identify neural, physiological and behavioral correlates underlying trust-based decision making
  • Understanding Cognition, Oxytocin and Pain in Elders (UCOPE)
    • The focus of this study was to examine the effect of chronic intranasal oxytocin on chronic pain and cognition in older adults with knee osteoarthritis during and across a 4-week intervention
  • Deepfake Detection Study
    • The focus of this study was to identify factors of deepfake detection accuracy
  • Fake News Study
    • The focus of this study was to examine the effects of age related cognitive decline on susceptibility to fake news and develop AI algorithms to predict whether news was real or fake
  • Self and Others Study
    • The focus of this study was to understand susceptibilities to deception and scams across the lifespan
  • Oxytocin Aging Study
    • This study investigated effects of chronic intranasal oxytocin administration on cognition, health, and socioemotional processes in generally healthy older adults throughout and across a 4-week intervention
  • Flexible Brain
    • The focus of this study was to learn more about how the brain works when we think
  • News Study
    • In this study, researchers examined perceptions of news articles
  • Decisions Study
    • In this study researchers examined decision-making in women and men, aged 65 and older
  • Authentication Study
    • In this study researchers examined which method of authentication on computers and other devices is easier to use.
  • Developer Code Perception Study
    • This study examined how developers interpret and reason about code and how this ability is associated with cognitive functioning and personality.
  • Daily Internet Study
    • This study examined daily internet use in young and older adults in aging.
  • Spam Study
    • This study examined the nature of spam (e.g., how it lures users into clicking or viewing malicious content) received by young and older internet users.
  • FACES Study
    • This study investigated the influence of a single-dose of intranasal oxytocin on socioemotional and cognitive processing in young and older adults.
  • Social Memory Study
    • This study examined the extent to which the self-relevance of information (e.g., related to age or personality traits) affect memory in young and older adults.
  • Face-Name Memory Study
    • This study investigated the effect of positive and negative performance feedback on memory for faces and names in young and older adults.
  • Florida Lifestyle Project
    • This study focused on healthy decision-making, and the effects of mental time-travel (to the past and the future) on the healthiness of everyday lifestyle choices in young and older adults.