Please read the following information carefully before deciding whether to participate.
You are being asked to participate in a research study. Scientists do research to answer questions and learn new information. Some research might help change or improve the way we do things in the future. This consent form will give you information about the study to help you decide whether you want to participate. Please read this form and ask any questions you have before agreeing to be in the study.
You may choose not to take part in the study or may choose to leave the study at any time. Deciding not to participate, or deciding to leave the study later, will not result in any penalty or loss of benefits to which you are entitled and will not affect your relationship with the University of Notre Dame.
As an alternative to participating in the study, you may choose not to take part.
The purpose of this study is to understand the preferences of humans for humanitarian disaster relief organizations.
You were selected as a possible participant because you fulfilled participant criteria.
The study is being conducted by Marialena Bevilacqua, Cameron Kormylo, and Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. It is funded by the University of Notre Dame.
If you agree to be in the study, you will be asked to do the following things:
There are no foreseeable risks of participation.
We don't expect you to receive any benefit from taking part in this study, but we hope to discover insights that will help scientists in the future.
Efforts will be made to keep your personal information confidential. We cannot guarantee absolute confidentiality. Your personal information may be disclosed if required by law. No information which could identify you will be shared in publications about this study and databases in which results may be stored.
Organizations that may inspect and/or copy your research records for quality assurance and data analysis include groups such as the study investigator and his/her research associates, the University of Notre Dame Institutional Review Board or its designees, and (as allowed by law) state or federal agencies, especially the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), who may need to access the research records.
Information collected from you for this study may be used for future research studies or shared with other researchers for future research. If this happens, information which could identify you will be removed before any information is shared. Since identifying information will be removed, we will not ask for your additional consent.
Participants will be paid between $1.50 and $2.00 for participating in the survey. If a participant fails to correctly answer the attention check, they will not be paid.
For questions about the study, contact the researcher, Marialena Bevilacqua at mbevilac@nd.edu.
For questions about your rights as a research participant, to discuss problems, complaints, or concerns about a research study, please contact Notre Dame Research Compliance at 574-631-1461 or at compliance@nd.edu.