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- Title
Participant Attentiveness to Consent Forms.
- Authors
Baker, Derek; Chartier, Christopher R.
- Abstract
In the present study, we tested to see if participants were attentive to details in the consent form for a psychological experiment before signing it. Our initial hypothesis was that participants might not read attentively, due to perceiving the information to be mundane. Depending on condition, the code word was placed in an early, middle, or late section of the consent form. This experiment allowed us to analyze whether participants read through the consent form, and if they paid more attention to a specific part of the form than others. We asked participants to read through the consent form and sign at the bottom when they were finished. Following their signed consent, we orally gave instructions on how to complete the filler task. At the conclusion of the study, participants were given a prompt to recall the code word. The results of this preregistered study show that, of the 136 participants, only 20 participants correctly recalled the code word. A χ2 test of independence revealed that successfully noticing the code word did not depend on the location on the consent form, χ2(2, N = 136) = 0.67, p = 0.72, f = 0.07. The results of this study show that students did not differentially respond to different parts of the consent form.
- Subjects
INFORMED consent (Medical law); MINDFULNESS; ATTENTION testing; PSYCHOLOGY of Undergraduates; PSYCHOLOGY students
- Publication
Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research, 2018, Vol 23, Issue 2, p142
- ISSN
2164-8204
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24839/2325-7342.JN23.2.141