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Undergraduate Participants
Consent to Register for the Psychology Participant Pool

In choosing to submit responses to this brief, web-based registration questionnaire, you are consenting to have the Psychology Research Participant Pool Committee retain the information you provide in a secure database for use by researchers whose studies have received appropriate ethics approval.

It is essential that you respond honestly and accurately to each of the items below because the integrity of all research results are compromised by dishonest responding on your part. We thank you for your assistance in maintaining the integrity of psychological research.

I understand the following:

1. The information I provide on this registration form will be used by the Participant Pool administrators to identify me as a potential participant for studies that are being conducted by undergraduate, graduate, and faculty researchers in the Department of Psychology during the current term.

2. My responses to the questions on the registration form may be used to select me as a potential participant for particular studies.

3. The Participant Pool administrators and any individual researchers who receive information I have provided are charged with maintaining the confidentiality of that information in accordance with ethical guidelines for research with human participants.

4. I am free to decline to participate in any study about which I am contacted, or withdraw my participation from individual studies or the participant pool.

5. If I choose to participate in a study, I will be compensated by earning one, two or three bonus marks toward my final grade in eligible Psychology courses in which I am registered this term.

6. There are no significant risks to me in completing the Participant Pool registration form. Being registered in the Participant Pool may provide me with opportunities to learn about how psychological research is conducted from the perspective of a participant.

7. If I choose not to self-register for the Participant Pool, or if I am unable to or choose not to participate in any research studies, I can still earn bonus marks in my eligible Psychology courses by completing equivalent, alternate assignments specified by my course instructor on the course outline.

8. I am aware that studies in Psychology may from time to time involve deception. Any deception used has been reviewed and has been deemed appropriate by the appropriate ethics review board.

9. The Participant Pool Registration procedures have been reviewed by the University of Windsor Research Ethics Board. If I have questions about my rights as a research participant, I may contact the Research Ethics Coordinator, University of WIndsor, Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4 (Telephone 519-253-3000, ext. 3948; Email: ethics@uwindsor.ca).

Updated: Aug 6, 2009