Kenneth M. Steele
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:32:00 -0700
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:00:18 -0500 Mike Scoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I'm on a rant about the publication manual, the > subjects/participants distinction seems silly. What is the distinction according to the APA manual? As I read the relevant sections (pp. 18-19, 65, 70, 393-394)of the new manual, the distinction is that humans are participants and animals are subjects. Informed consent does not matter. Even the manual has problems with the distinction. Consider the following quotation from the manual, "When humans participated as the subjects of the study, ..." (p. 18). Ken ---------------------- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Psychology Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA