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 incentives could become coercive.
> 
> Rick
> 
> Rick Froman
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> On Sep 15, 2011, at 1:17 PM, "Annette Taylor" 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> 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
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> ________________________________
> From: Horton, Joseph J. [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:32 AM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Subject: [tips] Ethics Question
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> 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
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> Joseph J. Horton, Ph. D.
> Box 3077
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