I have the very same concern. I think it may be a serious and systemic
problem that has the potential to influence what we are learning about
psychology through empirical data collection in terms of making Type I
and Type II errors.
I recently conducted a study in which students read a statement
We tryto various levels of success. We try to emphasize the ethics involved
and have decided as as department to incorporate a discussion of honest
participation during the teaching of research ethics. Also, we encourage
students to do the alternate assignment if they really don't want to do
Related to the question at hand, I remember doing a quick and dirty study
_many_ years ago looking at the performance differences in participants'
performance on memory tasks early vs late in the semester. I hypothesized that
those early in ther term would be more motivated and less concerned a
I agree it can be a problem, but feel researchers have an obligation to engage
the participants. I encourage a variety of extra credit options and so
students not having time or motivation can do other things. I also ask my Gen.
Psych students to write up a paragraph describing the study and i
Boy am I going to provoke reactions here but to me it seems unethical to
require psychology students to be participants in research studies. And
is it any surprise that forced participants sometimes don't take the
research seriously? They might be irritated and/or feel they are being
taken advant
articipate.
From: Joan Warmbold [jwarm...@oakton.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 8:05 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] educating participants in research
Boy am I going to provoke reactions here but to me it seems un
e, we provide them an alternative
assignment if they don't want to participate.
From: Joan Warmbold [jwarm...@oakton.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 8:05 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] educating participants
009 19:05:31 -0500 (CDT)
>From: "Joan Warmbold"
>Subject: Re: [tips] educating participants in research
>To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
>
>Boy am I going to provoke reactions here but to me it seems unethical to
>require psychology stu
te
>
> Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
> Professor of Psychology
> University of San Diego
> 5998 Alcala Park
> San Diego, CA 92110
> 619-260-4006
> tay...@sandiego.edu
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>
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>>From: &
n't really
alternatives.
From: Joan Warmbold [jwarm...@oakton.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 9:53 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] educating participants in research
I clearly was under a misconception here. I had
Every school with which I am familiar offers an alternative to
research participation. Most have an alternative like Annettes,
a 1-page double-spaced summary of an empirical paper.
Ken
Joan Warmbold wrote:
I clearly was under a misconception here. I had been told by a number of
my 101 st
Take all the data they provided for the study and run Mahalanobis distance
calculations to see if at least some of them can be screened out of your
data due to being multivariate outliers.
Paul Bernhardt
FSU Department of Psychology
301-687-4410
On 5/6/09 3:47 PM, "tay...@sandiego.edu" wrote:
te Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
> Professor of Psychology
> University of San Diego
> 5998 Alcala Park
> San Diego, CA 92110
> 619-260-4006
> tay...@sandiego.edu
>
>
> Original message
>>Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 19:05:31 -0500 (CDT)
>>From: "Joan Warmbol
I do not allow alternate activities.Research participation is a must.If a
student does not want to participate,I drop the student from my class. My
way or the highway!
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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> So I have no problem with subject pools.
>
> Annette
>
> Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
> Professor of Psychology
> University of San Diego
> 5998 Alcala Park
> San Diego, CA 92110
> 619-260-4006
> tay...@sandiego.edu
>
>
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From: William Scott [mailto:wsc...@wooster.edu]
Sent: Thu 5/7/2009 11:38 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] educating participants in research
Because the "alternatives" to research participation requirements are pretty
much in place everywh
such unethical
behavior).
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From: msylves...@copper.net
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009 11:53 am
Subject: Re: [tips] educating participants in research
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
> I do not allow alternate activities.Research
> pa
Hi
It certainly would be nice for all students to take research participation (and
class participation and tests and life and ...) equally serious, but that is
unlikely to ever be the case. I doubt, however, that slack participants have
much effect. Only a few obvious ways that they could aff
ission of the sender.
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: William Scott [mailto:wsc...@wooster.edu]
> Sent: Thu 5/7/2009 11:38 AM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Subject: Re: [tips] educating participants in research
>
> Because the "alternat
sychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Subject: RE: [tips] educating participants in research
>
> Here might be the issue folks and it's so pathetically
> understandable--relative to Carol's point about how cavalier
> students are toward teacher evaluations and how some students
I do not allow alternate activities.Research participation is a must.If a
student does not want to participate,I drop the student from my class. My
way or the highway!
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
I feel the same way about anyone using instincts to explain behavior.
I require
ssage
>Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 12:23:46 -0500
>From: "Jim Clark"
>Subject: Re: [tips] educating participants in research
>To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
>
>Hi
>
>It certainly would be nice for all students to take research participat
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