"In this book, the term subject is retained and used interchangeably with the other terms (participant, client, patients). The term subjects is important because it has been adopted in key topics related to methodology (e.g., subject selection, subject artifacts). Also, participants in research include investigators (who design the study) and experimenters (who administer the conditions) and, in an important sense, consumers of research (other professionals, the public at large). These distinctions are elaborated later. It will be important to be clear at all times about who provides the data (the subjects)."
Kazdin, A.E. (2003). Research design in clinical psychology (4th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon. (p. 4)
Kazdin has engaged his brain on this more than APA.
Of course, the whole PC point of the subjects -> participants shift is to blur the distinction between those running and analyzing the experiment and those whose behavior is being studied.
Personally, when a sentence has a participant and an object ....
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