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 > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > On Sep 15, 2011, at 1:17 PM, "Annette Taylor" > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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 > <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > ________________________________ > 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 > > > 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. 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