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- Title
"You May Have Already Won…": An Examination of the Use of Lottery Payments in Research.
- Authors
Brown, Joseph S.; Schonfeld, Toby L.; Gordon, Bruce C.
- Abstract
This article presents information on the payment of human subjects to participate in research. Payment to human subjects still remains an unresolved ethical issue facing Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). According to an informal survey conducted through the Social Psychology List Serve, out of 15 responding institutions that use IRBs, 10 had restrictions on lottery payments. It is argued in this article that the compensation in studies offering a lottery is not the prize itself, but the chance to participate in the lottery. The article concludes that in order for a lottery to be fair as a means of compensating human subjects, one must believe that subjects participate for a chance to win, as that is the fairly-divided good.
- Subjects
HUMAN capital; PAYMENT; INSTITUTIONAL review boards; MEDICAL ethics committees; SOCIAL groups; SOCIAL psychology
- Publication
IRB: Ethics & Human Research, 2006, Vol 28, Issue 1, p12
- ISSN
0193-7758
- Publication type
Article