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General Disclosure

Thank you for your interest in being a subject in one of our decision-making experiments. If you are chosen for an experiment, you will be given a specific consent form or an information sheet which will make a formal disclosure of information to you and which you may be asked to sign. The following information covers much of the same material as you will see in the consent form or the information sheet, but this is not a consent document. It is a disclosure document to provide you with information before you decide whether or not to sign up.

Purpose

You are being invited to participate voluntarily in this research experiment to study the economics of decision-making. We will not report your participation, your decisions, or your payments to your professors, your friends, nor in any identifiable way in our research. Payments are not now but in the future could be reported to appropriate tax authorities depending upon instruction that we could be given from Florida State University. Our research is related to how individuals and groups of individuals make decisions in the context of markets or market-like institutions. Our research is NOT related to your medical or psychological history, nor is it related to sensitive issues of your personal life (criminal records, sexual behavior, alcohol or drug abuse). These experiments are neither IQ tests nor are they tests of general economic knowledge

Selection Criteria

Certain criteria (such as class at the university or previous participation) may play a role in how the set of subjects is selected for any one particular experiment. This may change from one experiment to another. Only persons 18 years of age or older may participate.

Procedure

Experiments will typically last up to two hours (unless clearly pre-announced otherwise). You may be assigned to a participant id, name or role by chance, like the "flip of a coin" or "random arrival." You will be asked to make decisions in a Florida State University classroom or computer lab, or online.

Participation Costs and Subject Compensation

In addition to a guaranteed show up payment for showing up on time, you will have the opportunity to earn additional compensation, which will be based upon your decisions, the decisions of others who are in the experiment, and the rules within which those decisions are made. You are free to ask any questions about the rules as to how your compensation will be determined. Any compensation you receive as a result of your participation in this experiment is taxable income. Your earnings in the experiment are not now but could be reported for taxation purposes, but your decisions in the study will remain confidential and will not be forwarded to tax authorities. You are free to withdraw from the experiment without compensation at any time. If you should choose to withdraw, you may keep the show-up payment. Likewise, should any unforeseen event (e.g. power failure, computer problems, the wrong number of participants showing-up, etc.) cause an unexpected cancellation in your participation after you have arrived on time and are ready to participate, you will be paid your guaranteed show-up payment.

Risks and Benefits

There are no known health risks or health benefits for these experiments beyond those from any other typical activity in a Florida State University classroom or computer lab. We do not employ deception. If we make a representation to you about the experiment, to the best of our knowledge it is true.

Confidentiality

The confidentiality of any personal information will be protected to the extent allowed by law. To the extent allowed by law, our rule is that only the researchers and any research assistants conducting this experiment may know what your earnings are (subject to tax reporting and auditing requirements) and only researchers affiliated with the XS/FS research group at Florida State University may have access to any other data with your name. Your name will not be reported with any results related to this research.

Contacts

You can obtain further information from Prof. Mark Isaac at (850) 644-7081 or by email at misaac@fsu.edu. If you have questions concerning your rights as a research subject, or if you believe I have been placed at risk, you should call the Human Subjects Committee Hotline Information Number at (850) 644-8836.

Other

Before giving your formal consent at the time of the experiment, the methods, inconveniences, risks, and benefits will be explained to you and you will have a chance to ask questions. You may ask questions at any time and you are free to withdraw from the project at any time without causing bad feelings. Your participation in this project may be ended by the investigator or by the sponsor for reasons that would be explained, but which will carry no bad effects beyond this experiment. In either case, you will be paid your show-up fee. Should you decide to participate, your signed and witnessed consent form will be filed in an area designated by the human subjects committee with access restricted to an authorized representative of the Florida State University economics department. You will not give up any of your legal rights should you sign the consent form and agree to participate in a specific experiment. A copy of the consent form will be given to you in advance of an experiment upon request by calling Prof. Mark Isaac at (850) 644-7081.

Please bring your FSU ID with you to any experiment.
Privacy policy

By registering for, and participating in experiments at the XS/FS Lab, you acknowledge and agree to the provisions of this document.

Throughout this document, "experiments at the XS/FS Lab" mean both face-to-face and online experiments.

In order to become a human subject participating in experiments at the XS/FS lab, you should register in the lab's Participation Database. Only current FSU students with a valid FSU ID are allowed to register.

We use the data collected in the Participation Database for the following purposes:
  • to inform subjects about new experiments and invite them for participation
  • to conduct a scientifically motivated selection of subjects for specific experiments
  • to keep track of subjects' participation in experiments
Any subject may at any time choose not to receive further invitations to experiments.

At the request of a subject the collected personal data will be completely deleted. Upon such a request, the subject’s first name, last name, and FSU ID (or the associated e-mail address) will remain in the database for a period of four years to exclude multiple registrations; after that they will be deleted as well.

For registration in the Participation Database, providing the following information is mandatory:
  • First name and last name
  • FSU e-mail address ending with @fsu.edu
The following information is optional but helps experimenters contact subjects if needed (for example, to remind them about an upcoming session or inform about a cancellation), and helps subjects get invited to experiments based on specific characteristics:
  • Phone number
  • Field of study/profession
  • Gender
The data in the Participation Database will not be disclosed to third parties, with the exception of the experimenters and affiliates of the XS/FS Lab, unless such disclosure is required by law. FSU students registering in the Participation Database provide their data voluntarily and are aware of the natural risks associated with storing personal data on a server connected to the Internet. The data are stored on a secure server; however, despite best efforts to keep the data secure there is no 100% guarantee that the data will not be hacked, stolen or otherwise disclosed to a potentially unrestricted set of people. In the unlikely event such a breach of security happens, any person registered in the Participation Database will not hold FSU or any of its affiliates liable for any losses resulting from the security breach, and will not be entitled to any actions, beyond securing the database, to mitigate the consequences of the security breach.

It is understood that the mandatory data collected in the Participation Database are considered “directory information” under FERPA. It is also understood that the sole purpose of the Participation Database is to facilitate scientific experiments conducted in the US with US persons either face-to-face or online. As such, the use of the database is not within the scope of GDPR.
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For questions please contact cosspp-xsfs@fsu.edu.