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 distressed (not just because they feel like it) without any loss of incentives--i.e., they feel stressed answering questions about past relationships and want to stop, OK we still give them whatever incentive was given to those who completed the study and told us all about their past relationships in this example.
Are we going overboard? That is completely new to me. 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 "ethical principles" now bind us to incentivize studies! In many psych studies we use a subject pool and students get credit for participation; but that really has nothing to do with incentivizing other than making sure that we (the big we--all researchers across the country doing research) actually get participants for studies because if we depended on true volunteers, they would be very few and far between and of course we justify this as providing with a unique experiential insight into the research process--which, of course, is partly true. That said, true volunteering can't possibly be unethical, can it????? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ From: Horton, Joseph J. [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:32 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Ethics Question Suppose some students wanted to study varsity athletes at a DIII school. As I understand things APA ethics requires that study participants receive some incentive for participating. However the NCAA might find that offering incentives to recruit only athletes for a study would be a violation; or administrators might fear that it would be a violation. Is there a way out of this conundrum to study athletes? Thanks, Joe Joseph J. Horton, Ph. D. Box 3077 Grove City College Grove City, PA 16127 724-458-2004 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> In God we trust, all others must bring data. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0&n=T&l=tips&o=12689 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-12689-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-12689-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=12691 or send a blank email to leave-12691-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
