Department of Psychology

Missed Appointments by Experimenters

• If for any reason you must cancel an experimental session, it is your responsibility to personally contact each participant who had signed up for your experiment as soon as possible (at least 24 hrs. in advance).
  
• If you cannot talk to a real person (not just leave a message) before the scheduled time of the experiment, you are responsible for giving full credit to the participant if they actually show up for the experiment. You should arrange for someone else to be at the experiment to inform those who show up that the experiment has been canceled, and to get their information so you may award them credit at a later date.
  
• This is not the responsibility of the psychology department- you must arrange for this circumstance if you must cancel a session.
  
• Collecting data from the participant pool is a privilege, not a right, and we must treat the participants with the same amount of respect that we wish to be treated with as experimenters.