New HSP Study Page

This page is used for you to submit information regarding a new study to the Human Subjects Coordinator (HSC) for approval. Studies which use the Human Subjects Pool must have an HSC-approved debriefing before they will be approved by the IRB, and researchers must provide answers to the RER questions before their study will be approved on Sona. It is the HSC's job to ensure that the debriefing contains sufficient information to answer the RER questions, so it is necessary to collect all of this information at the same time.

Once you fill out this page, a copy of the information will be automatically emailed to the HSC, and you will be cc'd on the email, to make the approval process as smooth as possible.

First, please provide the following information about your study:

Your name:

Your email address:

Study name (if you know it):

Next, please provide your debriefing. Your debriefing must include sufficient information for a student to be able to use it to answer the RER questions. Please paste your debriefing form into this text box. Formatting is not important, as the HSC only cares about the text.

Several example debriefing forms, as well as guides to writing a good debriefing, are available in this document.

Finally, please provide our 201/2 GTFs with sufficient information so that they can determine whether students (1) attended your study; (2) attended TO your debriefing. The language in your answers does NOT have to model a possible student's answer. Rather, we just need GENERAL info to determine whether their answer is sufficiently thorough and accurate. Sample answers are provided.

Question 1 asked the student, "If this study were published, and described in your textbook, what chapter and subheading would it most likely appear under?"

General info we need for the grader:

What area of psychology is your study in?
and/or what are some key words graders should expect to see?

Sample answer: Chapter: memory. Section: malleability of memory, Key words: memory, false memory, suggestibility, plausibility of events

Answer for your study:

Question 2 asked the student, "Were the researchers in this study interested in how different groups of participants might respond or behave differently? Is so, what were these groups?"

General info we need for the grader:

Was there an IV?
Manipulated variable?
Subject variable?
Describe it.

Sample answer 1: Yes. Students were randomly assigned to one of four conditions. We gave them either an implausible or plausible event (being pushed over and injured by mickey mouse and shaking hands with mickey mouse) and a possible or impossible event (meeting mickey mouse or bugs bunny in Disneyland).

Sample answer 2: No. We are just doing a factor analysis. Everyone was given the same measure and there was no specific recruitment criterion.

Answer for your study:

Question 3 asked the student, "What are the real world applications of this type of research? For example, whom might the results help?"

General info we need for the grader:

Is there a direct/applied obvious application?
Is there a population that will directly benefit?
Or is the work more theoretical?

Sample answer 1: One real world application to this research is the importance for expert testimony in the court room. Experts often testify at trial about factors that influence memory. The dimension we are adding to the research, about plausibility, is of critical importance.

Sample answer 2: This factor analysis study is not really applicable to the "real world" at this point. However, when the results are disseminated, they will be useful to clinicians and other researchers who are trying to understand the constructs underlying Schizotypal Personality Disorder.

Answer for your study:

Question 4 asked the student, "What was a research question that the researchers hope to answer with this study?"

General info we need for the grader:

Provide the hypothesis or general gist of the research question (it’s fine to paste this directly from you debriefing form if you like).

Sample answer 1: Do non-native English speakers have the same ERP response to incongruent words in a sentence that native English speakers do? This helps us understand brain plasticity.

Sample answer 2: This is an exploratory study. We want to know if there are different facets to imagination, or if there is one general construct called "imagination." By doing a factor analysis we will be able to determine this.

Answer for your study:

Question 5 asked the student, "For the research question that this study addresses, what would be another interesting population (besides college students) to study, and why? What differences in the results would you predict with this population?"

General info we need for the grader:

None needed unless there is something specific to your hypothesis that the student should have picked up on.

Sample answer 1: N/A.

Sample answer 2: Since we are studying attention and the relationship to video game playing, more ideal populations (if we had unlimited funds) would be recruited from video arcades and would be done in a longitudinal design. Another obvious answer would be individuals diagnosed with ADHD.

Answer for your study:

If you have any questions, please email the Human Subjects Coordinator, hscoord@.