Students should complete a total of 30 hours (= 1800 minutes) as test subjects in empirical psychological studies by the time they submit their Bachelor's thesis. To this end, they take part in various empirical studies within the Department of Psychology as test subjects and have the time spent confirmed. These can be, for example, student project and final theses or professorial research projects.

This is a solidarity-based procedure: Students make themselves available to other students as study participants so that other students can make themselves available to them later.

Although the subject hours must be completed by the end of the degree course, it has proven to be advantageous to acquire the subject hours in the first 2-4 semesters. On the one hand, only first-year students can participate in many studies, on the other hand, students have little time to do so in the last two semesters, for example because of their Bachelor's theses.

Since the summer semester 2023:

1. In future, students should have taken part in at least three studies (from 0.5 Vpn hours) or one comprehensive study (at least 4 Vpn hours) from each professorship in order to have gained a comprehensive impression of research.
2. Exceptions and case-by-case decisions are possible if, for example, the department did not offer a sufficient number of studies during the course of your studies or if there were study-specific exclusion criteria that made repeated study participation impossible.
3. Transitional rule: If you have already completed all VP hours, this rule does not apply to you. If you have already achieved more than 50% of your VP hours at the beginning of the summer semester 2023, please fulfill 1-2 studies per department in the remaining hours.
4. Procedure: So that this can be checked easily, please number the studies consecutively on your Sona printout and enclose an overview of which studies are assigned to which working group in addition to the Sona printout, e.g. SO: Study 1, 7, 21 AG: Study 2, 4, 3 EW: Study 9, 12, 15 Abbreviations: AL = ageing research, AG = general psychology, EW: developmental psychology, KL = clinical psychology, DD = diagnostics & differential psychology, SO = social psychology.
5. More recent studies are preceded by a working group abbreviation in Sona for the sake of clarity.

Subject hours are allocated via the Sona system.

For this purpose, an account opening must be requested once. Please read the important notes on creating an account

for students

for external students

carefully beforehand. If you still have any questions, please contact the degree program coordinator.