JUDGMENTS ABOUT HYPOTHETICAL SOCIAL SITUATIONS
Note. Please ignore the 1/2-hour time estimate below, since people typically take about 15 minutes to complete this session.
We are interested in your intuitive judgments about data. Therefore we ask that you generate your answers without the aid of a calculator or paper-and-pencil.
Informed Consent
Supervisor: Richard B. Anderson; Associate Professor of Psychology; Department of Psychology, 206 Psychology Building, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-0232; 419-372-9908; 419-372-6013 (fax); http://www.bgsu.edu
You must be at least 18 years old to participate. Participants in this experiment will read and make judgments about hypothetical social situations. Each participant will complete the study via the World Wide Web, using the computer of his or her choice. The session should last a half hour or less. If you are a student, and if your instructor allows course credit for research participation, you will receive a half hour of credit for this study. Once you have completed the process of agreeing to participate, you will automatically receive a web address, or be automatically forwarded to a web address, to begin the experiment. To ensure that your participation counts, please complete the study no later seven days following your agreement to participate.
General Benefits: Your participation will benefit science by helping researchers learn more about how people form beliefs about relationships between various things they encounter in their environment.
Specific Benefits: The benefits to you will consist of gaining greater personal knowledge about how people make judgments about social situations. In addition, upon completing this session you will be entered into a raffle in which you could win a $25 gift card.
Risks: Participation in this study involves no risk to you or to anyone else.
Confidentiality: If you sign up to receive course credit for this study, we will collect your name and ID number so that your credit can be properly assigned. This information will be kept in a locked room and in password-protected electronic data systems. However, the procedure for the experiment itself does not collect personally identifiable information from you. Thus, no record will be kept that can link particular participants to particular responses. Please be aware that (a) no form of human communication (e.g. email, telephone, or regular mail) is 100% secure, (b) employers may be able to track your information if you participate using computers at your workplace, and (c) it is best to clear the browser cache and page history after you complete the study.
Course-Related Credit: In the event that you are receiving course credit for your participation, your instructor should have already decided how much the credit will affect your grade. The instructor is also obligated to provide a non-research alternative for earning credit, so that in the end, your decision to participate or to not participate in this study won’t affect your grade or your class standing.
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Your participation in the study is voluntary and you are free to withdraw at any time without penalty. You should direct any questions or concerns about your rights as a research participant to the Chair of the Human Subjects Review board (Phone: 419/372-7716, Email: hsrb@bgnet.bgsu.edu). If you have questions about the study, you may contact Dr. Richard B. Anderson, 419/372-9908, randers@bgsu.edu
BGSU HSRB -- Approved for use. ID# H09P101FFB. Effective 12/15/2008. Expires 12/2/2009.
Please go to the next page ONLY if you consent to the procedures described above.
