To be eligible to receive payment for our study you must be using a web browser with cookies enabled:
If this sounds like you, please complete the following page. If you qualify,
we will contact you by email in advance of the experiment.
Will I get paid?
You will not receive payment for filling out the form to register for our Online
Panel. However, you will be paid for completing our online studies you will be
invited to. Payments are mainly handled by PayPal (www.paypal.com/)
a free service.
Therefore, make sure that the email you sign up with is the same email
address associated with your Paypal account. This way your earnings can
be directly deposited in your account. Alternatively, in many of our studies,
you can choose to receive payment in the form of an Amazon.com gift certificate.
If you do not wish to be paid via Paypal or with an Amazon.com gift certificate,
please do not participate in this research. Payment is
approximately $16 per hour, however
this varies depending on the length of the study. You may also earn bonus
payments, which depend on the study as well.
How is data I provide stored?
Information about you will be kept in
strict confidentiality and stored on a remote server hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Your information will not be shared with anyone
outside the Center for Decision Sciences and you will not be contacted except as
it concerns the Center for Decision Sciences Virtual Lab. Your personal
information will be kept indefinitely until request for deletion and will under
no circumstances be given out to third parties. You may choose to remove
yourself from our online participant panel at any time without penalty by
emailing
decision_sciences@columbia.edu
with the email address associated with your account. Likewise, the Center
for Decision Sciences reserves the right to remove participants from our panel
at any time. Please note that removal from the online panel itself doesn’t
guarantee removal from past studies in which you have already participated. If
removal occurs, periodic emails will be sent to ask if you prefer to have your
information completely deleted from our system.
What do I consent to?
By registering in the CDS Virtual Lab Online Panel, you consent to receive email
invitations from the Center for Decision Sciences to participate in online
surveys for which you may qualify. Except as it concerns online studies, you
will not be contacted. Your participation in online studies is entirely
voluntary. You may choose to participate in certain surveys and decline to
participate in others. However, you will not be able to participate in our
web-based online studies if you do not join the online panel.
What research studies am I going to participate in?
For more information on the Center for Decision Sciences and our research
projects please visit our
homepage. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at
decision_sciences@columbia.edu.
If at any time you have questions or concerns about your rights or welfare as a research subject, contact the Columbia University Morningside Institutional Review Board (IRB) by email at askirb@columbia.edu, or by phone at 212-851-7040.
What are the
research purpose, risks, and benefits?
The purpose of the
CDS Virtual Lab Online Panel
is to create a mailing list of participants (also called panelists) that
receive invitations to participate in paid online
surveys. There are no foreseeable
risks to joining the online panel.
There is no
direct benefit to joining the panel (payment is not
considered a benefit of research). It will take approximately 5 minutes to
complete the registration form.
