INFORMATION SHEET for online participants
You are invited to participate in a research study on human vision, 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 receive a demographic questionnaire to collect information of your age, gender, ethnicity, and language. 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 a 50-item questionnaire. Each item is a statement describing yourself (e.g., “I prefer to do things with others rather than on my own.”) and you will indicate how strongly you agree or disagree with the statement. Your responses will be recorded by the computer and will not be identified with you in any way. The session will take 60 minutes.
Potential Risks and Discomforts
There is no known risk/discomfort in this study. If you experience any discomfort during 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, people’s preference of irrelevant information in a scenario sometimes irrationally or unjustly bias decision making. By understanding people’s preferences, we will be able to design better environments for people to make rational and just decisions.
Payment for Participation
You will receive 1 hour of credit for your psychology class if you signed up for the study through the UCLA Psychology Department Subject Pool; otherwise you will receive the payment in the rate of $10 per hour for your participation.
Alternatives to Participation
An alternative to participating in this project and fulfilling Psychology 10 requirements is to participate in other research or to do an equivalent classroom project.
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.
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. You may refuse to answer any questions that you do not want to answer and still remain in the study.
Identification of Investigators
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Dr. Hongjing Lu (hongjing@ucla.edu), at the Department of Psychology, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563.
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.
UCLA Office of the Human Research Protection Program (OHRPP)
If you have questions about your rights as a research subject, or you have concerns or suggestions and you want to talk to someone other than the researchers, you may contact the UCLA OHRPP by phone: (310) 206-2040; by email: participants@research.ucla.edu or by mail: Box 951406, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1406.
You are invited to participate in a research study on human vision, 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 receive a demographic questionnaire to collect information of your age, gender, ethnicity, and language. 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 a 50-item questionnaire. Each item is a statement describing yourself (e.g., “I prefer to do things with others rather than on my own.”) and you will indicate how strongly you agree or disagree with the statement. Your responses will be recorded by the computer and will not be identified with you in any way. The session will take 60 minutes.
Potential Risks and Discomforts
There is no known risk/discomfort in this study. If you experience any discomfort during 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, people’s preference of irrelevant information in a scenario sometimes irrationally or unjustly bias decision making. By understanding people’s preferences, we will be able to design better environments for people to make rational and just decisions.
Payment for Participation
You will receive 1 hour of credit for your psychology class if you signed up for the study through the UCLA Psychology Department Subject Pool; otherwise you will receive the payment in the rate of $10 per hour for your participation.
Alternatives to Participation
An alternative to participating in this project and fulfilling Psychology 10 requirements is to participate in other research or to do an equivalent classroom project.
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.
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. You may refuse to answer any questions that you do not want to answer and still remain in the study.
Identification of Investigators
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Dr. Hongjing Lu (hongjing@ucla.edu), at the Department of Psychology, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563.
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.
UCLA Office of the Human Research Protection Program (OHRPP)
If you have questions about your rights as a research subject, or you have concerns or suggestions and you want to talk to someone other than the researchers, you may contact the UCLA OHRPP by phone: (310) 206-2040; by email: participants@research.ucla.edu or by mail: Box 951406, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1406.