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Institutional Review Board IRB-Assessment Form

Assessment Form

Applicant:

I am a current member of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Heidelberg University holding a doctorate *

Project:

Provide a 100 – 200 word abstract of your experiment, its research questions, and its key design features:

Questions:

1.) Preliminary review: Has the planned experiment already been reviewed by another ethics committee and rejected? *
2.) Physical integrity: Are physiological interventions or the administration of pharmaceutically active substances planned? (Note: Eye-tracking studies are considered unproblematic if informed consent is given.) *
3.)Psychological integrity: Are the test subjects deliberately placed in psychologically or emotionally extreme stressful situations or is it to be expected that such situations will occur for the subjects or for others during the course of the experiment *
4.) Deception: Are you planning to use any deception in your study? *
5. a) Does the study involve querying subjects on the following topics? Their past sexual activities *
5. b) Does the study involve querying subjects on the following topics? Their past illegal behavior *
5. c) Does the study involve querying subjects on the following topics? Their past experiences of violence or abuse *
5. d) Does the study involve querying subjects on the following topics? Their past drug use *
6.) Freedom of choice: Are subjects or other affected persons subjected to coercive situations (i.e., situations that they can only leave at disproportionate cost)? *
7.) Material losses: Are the subjects threatened with material losses from their own assets? (i.e., not taking into account the experimental payoffs), about whose existence and possible extent of which they have not been informed beforehand? *
8.) Criminal acts: Is it to be expected that illegal or even criminal acts (of the scientist) will occur in the course of the experiment? We mean criminal acts (on the part of the scientist, the subjects, or on the part of third parties)? *
9.) Subjects in need of protection: Do subjects take part who are under special legal protection (e.g., children, persons with disabilities, or others in need of protection)? *
10.) Animal experimentation: Are live animals used in the experiment? *
11.) Are there any other aspects in your experiment that could be considered ethically problematic? *

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