Re: [tips] Ethics Question

2011-09-16 Thread michael sylvester
I pay research participants out of my own pocket. Michael --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=12710 or send a blank email to leave-12710-13090.68da6e6e5325a

Re:[tips] Ethics Question

2011-09-15 Thread Justin Fidler
Guidance is readily available directly from APA's site: http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx Compensation for research participation is discussed in section 8.06, though what qualifies as "excessive" is certainly open to interpretation. Regards, Justin Fidler Sona Systems, Ltd. --- You

Re: [tips] Ethics Question

2011-09-15 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
That's how I read it, and how I taught it this past Monday. Paul On Sep 15, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Rick Froman wrote: > As far as I know, there is no APA ethics requirement that participants > receive an incentive for participating. To the extent it is discussed, it is > the opposite concern: that

Re: [tips] Ethics Question

2011-09-15 Thread Claudia Stanny
I was as puzzled by this as Annette & Rick. If anything, offering incentives can be regarded as problematic because they can be coercive. BTW, I know of one case where a researcher was told *not* to give an incentive (in this case a very cheap item - a disposable razor - given to the all-male par

RE:[tips] Ethics Question

2011-09-15 Thread Stuart McKelvie
3B7.53253AE0] [cid:image003.jpg@01CC73B7.53253AE0] ___ From: Horton, Joseph J. [mailto:jjhor...@gcc.edu] Sent: September 15, 2011 2:52 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE:[tips] Ethics Question Thanks Stuart, Rick

RE:[tips] Ethics Question

2011-09-15 Thread Horton, Joseph J.
In God we trust, all others must bring data. From: Stuart McKelvie [mailto:smcke...@ubishops.ca] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 2:26 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE:[tips] Ethics Question Dear Tipsters, Annette wrote: Where does it say that in t

RE:[tips] Ethics Question

2011-09-15 Thread Stuart McKelvie
Dear Tipsters, Annette wrote: Where does it say that in the APA guidelines that in a standard psychological study we MUST give incentives? .. What ever happened to "volunteers" in the truest sense of the word? It may explain some of the "entitlement" people in general feel these days if "eth

Re: [tips] Ethics Question

2011-09-15 Thread Rick Froman
As far as I know, there is no APA ethics requirement that participants receive an incentive for participating. To the extent it is discussed, it is the opposite concern: that incentives could become coercive. Rick Rick Froman rfro...@jbu.edu On Sep 15, 2011, at 1:17 PM,

RE:[tips] Ethics Question

2011-09-15 Thread Annette Taylor
Did I read this right? Did this send me right up to the soapbox? Where does it say that in the APA guidelines that in a standard psychological study we MUST give incentives? I thought we only had to disclose whether or not there were any, and that participants could quit at any time they feel d