Request Lab Help


Study Help Request Form

The Behavioral Lab's three full-time research assistants are here to help you prepare, carry-out, and complete studies. In order to receive assistance on a project, the lab requires researchers to request the assistance in advance. We use the Help Request Form to manage RA hours and to ensure that the lab spreads help equitably across projects and researchers.

Each RA blocks out set times each week that he/she runs studies, enters/codes data, and deals with administrative responsibilities. The lab will do its best to make sure the appropriate number of RAs works on your project so that it gets completed in a timely manner.

Once the Lab receives this form, the RA that takes the project will follow up with you as soon as possible.

Study Materials. Please have your study materials ready (questionnaires, procedures, etc). The Research Assistant that will take your request will contact you shortly and you can email your materials at that time.

 

Requestor Information

Your Name

Email Address

IRB #

(if there is no expiration date, just put "noexp" next to the number)

Expiration Date

Project Information

Name of Study

Brief Abstract

 

This is what participants will read to understand your study and decide to take it or not. 1-3 sentences. Please include the payment amount. (You don't need this if this is for the SSI pool.)

 

Is this a new project or part of on-going research? Select one.
New project
On-going research

If this is similar to ongoing research that is familiar to an RA here, and it is important for the study to keep this RA, you can list the name here:

What type of assistance do you need?

Running participants

Material creation

Data Entry

Study Programming

Data coding

Other

If you are running participants, how many do you want to run?

(do not pad this number to cover the expected number of incomplete participants, just give us the total number of "good" participants you want and we will compensate)

Where would you like your study to be run?

In-lab

  • Stanford students with the occasional Stanford staff person

Online: Student pool

  • The same Stanford students that come in-lab

Online: In-house national pool

  • Our Sona Systems pool with people from around the country

Online: External national pool (SSI - Survey Sampling International)
Please list the faculty with whom you are collaborating on this project:

  • 3rd party million-plus national pool
  • Studies are typically limited to under 20 minutes, though can be longer
  • Set up your studies in Qualtrics as you normally would
  • Advertising: SSI pays their participants per their rates and terms, and Stanford GSB B-Lab then pays SSI
  • No cost to faculty or student, unless study is over 20 minutes, then extra pricing may be tacked on. Speak to lab manager first in this case
  • THIS OPTION MUST BE SPECIFIED IN YOUR IRB. Language to use (this was approved by Lauri Kanerva at the IRB): "Participants are recruited through a third-party online panel company, Survey Sampling International. This company has a pre-arranged agreement with its panelists to be compensated for their involvement in online research, and therefore the company handles compensation and the researcher does not."
  • ADD THIS LANGUAGE INTO YOUR CONSENT FORM OR INFORMATION SHEET FOR THE 'PAYMENT'SECTION (pre-approved by the IRB): "As a participant in this study, you will be compensated at the rate you agreed to with Survey Sampling International, which may be a sweepstakes entry, direct pay, points, or other form, and that amount is sufficient compensation for the time you put into this study."

On-campus: The Cantor Arts Museum

  • On-campus art museum
  • Studies strictly limited to under 10 minutes
  • Laptop or paper-pencil
  • You may have to tack on some of their questions for their visitors to your questionnaire
  • Days we can run: Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun
  • Response rate we've seen so far: roughly 7 per hour
  • So long as your IRB allows you to run studies on campus, you don't need special language in your protocol to run here
  • No cost; participants aren't paid
  • A Lab RA or you can run the study on site

On-Campus or Off-site: Other: Where?

  • Make sure that your IRB reflects where you will run—see above choices for examples

How will the participants be paid?

Individually paid

Lottery

Other

How much will the payment be?

Study Duration
How long will it take a participant to complete this study?

Will you be restricting your participants? (e.g., men only, Asians only, etc.)

Yes
No

If yes, please specify

Previous Study Prerequisites

We will only allow participants to take your study if they have taken the study or studies you list here.

Previous Study Disqualifiers

We will prevent participants from taking your study if they have taken any of the studies you list here.

Please list here your IVs, DVs, and how you debriefed your participants (if you did). This information will be listed in the "comments" section of your study in Sona (not in SSI). This is so that you and your colleagues can look at these comments and decide which, if any, studies you would like to restrict—for reasons of deception, similar IV's, etc.

What are your IV's?

What are your DV's?

Was deception used?

Yes
No

How did you debrief your subjects?

Please describe the specific assistance you need. When you describe the type of assistance, imagine you are a teacher writing lesson plans to leave for a substitute. Include details regarding the number of participants you want run, the type of study you want programmed, whether the data entry requires transcribing essays, etc.

Assistance Description

How long do you expect the requested assistance to take? For example, if you need an RA to run a study for you, estimate how long it takes to set-up the study, run participants, and take down the study.

Time Estimate

When would you like the requested assistance completed? We will do our best to get the work done by the deadline you specify. If we cannot complete the work by the requested time, we will let you know

Completion Date

Please include anything else you think we should know about the assistance you are requesting. Does the requested assistance have any special requirements not stated previously in this form?

Additional Information

The lab reserves the right to refuse requests for assistance.