CONSENT FORM
You are invited to participate in a research study on human cognition, conducted by Hongjing Lu, PhD, of the Dept. of Psychology at UCLA. You were selected as a possible participant in this study because you have normal or corrected vision, and are 18 years of age or older. For scientific reasons, this consent form does not include complete information about the study hypotheses and the research questions being tested. You will be fully debriefed following your participation in the research.
Purpose of Study
The purpose of the study is to understand human perception and cognition.
Procedures Involved in Study
If you agree to participate, you may be presented with images, videos, or sounds on a computer screen, and answer simple questions and/or perform simple tasks by interacting with a website via a keyboard or a computer mouse. You may also be asked to fill out some questionnaires about your personality or experience, which will take at max 15 minutes. Your responses will be recorded by the computer and will not be identified with you in any way. You may receive a demographic questionnaire to collect information of your age, gender, ethnicity, and language. The session will take at most 60 minutes.
Potential Risks and Discomforts
There is no known risk/discomfort in this study. If you experience any discomfort during the course of the experiment, you can stop at any time and notify the experimenter.
Potential Benefits to Subject
There are no direct benefits from participating in this study.
Potential Benefits to Society
The findings of the study will help improve procedures for making important decisions to avoid unwanted biases. For example, individual’s cognitive tendencies may influence their decision making on finance, relationships, or diets, and their behaviors in different contexts like internet versus in-person interactions. By understanding how people differ from each other, we will be able to design better environments for people to make rational and just decisions in different domains in life.
Payment for Participation
You would receive 0.5 hour of credit every 30 minute for your psychology class if you signed up for the study through the UCLA Psychology Department Subject Pool; otherwise, you would receive the payment in the rate of $10 per hour for your participation.
Confidentiality
Your identity in this study will be treated as confidential. The results of the study, including laboratory or any other data, may be published for scientific purposes but will not include any identifiable references to you. The researchers will do their best to make sure that your private information is kept confidential. Information about you will be handled as confidentially as possible, but participating in research may involve a loss of privacy and the potential for a breach in confidentiality. Study data will be physically and electronically secured. As with any use of electronic means to store data, there is a risk of breach of data security. Your data, including de- identified data may be kept for use in future research.
Your IP Addresses may be collected to prevent the same IP address from participating twice. Your platform ID (e.g., Mturk worker ID, Prolific ID, or Sona ID) will not be shared with anyone outside of the research team and will not be linked to study responses. However, any work performed on MTurk can be linked to the user’s public profile page. Thus, you may wish to restrict what information you choose to share in your public profile.
Participation and Withdraw
Your participation is VOLUNTARY. You may withdraw from the experiment at any time without suffering any negative consequences.
Rights of Research Subjects
You may withdraw your consent at any time and discontinue participation without penalty. You are not waiving any legal claims, rights or remedies because of your participation in this research study.
You are invited to participate in a research study on human cognition, conducted by Hongjing Lu, PhD, of the Dept. of Psychology at UCLA. You were selected as a possible participant in this study because you have normal or corrected vision, and are 18 years of age or older. For scientific reasons, this consent form does not include complete information about the study hypotheses and the research questions being tested. You will be fully debriefed following your participation in the research.
Purpose of Study
The purpose of the study is to understand human perception and cognition.
Procedures Involved in Study
If you agree to participate, you may be presented with images, videos, or sounds on a computer screen, and answer simple questions and/or perform simple tasks by interacting with a website via a keyboard or a computer mouse. You may also be asked to fill out some questionnaires about your personality or experience, which will take at max 15 minutes. Your responses will be recorded by the computer and will not be identified with you in any way. You may receive a demographic questionnaire to collect information of your age, gender, ethnicity, and language. The session will take at most 60 minutes.
Potential Risks and Discomforts
There is no known risk/discomfort in this study. If you experience any discomfort during the course of the experiment, you can stop at any time and notify the experimenter.
Potential Benefits to Subject
There are no direct benefits from participating in this study.
Potential Benefits to Society
The findings of the study will help improve procedures for making important decisions to avoid unwanted biases. For example, individual’s cognitive tendencies may influence their decision making on finance, relationships, or diets, and their behaviors in different contexts like internet versus in-person interactions. By understanding how people differ from each other, we will be able to design better environments for people to make rational and just decisions in different domains in life.
Payment for Participation
You would receive 0.5 hour of credit every 30 minute for your psychology class if you signed up for the study through the UCLA Psychology Department Subject Pool; otherwise, you would receive the payment in the rate of $10 per hour for your participation.
Confidentiality
Your identity in this study will be treated as confidential. The results of the study, including laboratory or any other data, may be published for scientific purposes but will not include any identifiable references to you. The researchers will do their best to make sure that your private information is kept confidential. Information about you will be handled as confidentially as possible, but participating in research may involve a loss of privacy and the potential for a breach in confidentiality. Study data will be physically and electronically secured. As with any use of electronic means to store data, there is a risk of breach of data security. Your data, including de- identified data may be kept for use in future research.
Your IP Addresses may be collected to prevent the same IP address from participating twice. Your platform ID (e.g., Mturk worker ID, Prolific ID, or Sona ID) will not be shared with anyone outside of the research team and will not be linked to study responses. However, any work performed on MTurk can be linked to the user’s public profile page. Thus, you may wish to restrict what information you choose to share in your public profile.
Participation and Withdraw
Your participation is VOLUNTARY. You may withdraw from the experiment at any time without suffering any negative consequences.
Rights of Research Subjects
You may withdraw your consent at any time and discontinue participation without penalty. You are not waiving any legal claims, rights or remedies because of your participation in this research study.