At 07:08 AM 11/22/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>When reviewing past literature that refers to subjects should we
>now properly change the language to participants or can we go with the
>original author's language of subjects?
>
>annette
>
Don't recall ever seeing any specific guidelines from APA. However, my
inclination would be to keep "subjects" in direct quotes (you'd , but to
change to "participants" in all other descriptions of old research. We do
the same sort of thing to other outdated or anachronistic terms.
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Robert T. Herdegen III
Department of Psychology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943
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