Specific Ethics 2023
Evidence accumulation – Laura (9/2023)
General Ethics 2023
Decision making research – General ethics (3/2023)
General Ethics 2021
Ethics Code: 3990/003
Name: Sharot Program Ethics (aka. General Ethics)
Renewal: 28/02/2021
Updated consent and info sheet
Original Application
Original Application and approval
Amendments
- Questionnaires 2018
GAD-7 (Spitzer et al., 2006), Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS-J) (Liebowitz, 1987), Apathy Evaluation
Scale (Marie et al., 1991), the Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (Foa et al., 2002), the International
Cognitive Ability Resource (Condon & Revelle, 2014), the Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II:
Development (Kashdan et al., 2009), Short scales for measuring schizotypy (Mason et al., 2005, the
World Health Organization Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (Kessler et al., 2005), the Repetitive Behavior
Scale-Revised (Lam & Aman, 2007).
- Questionnaires 2019
Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT)1; Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26)2; Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS-11); Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS)3.
- Stress Manipulation: 27/01/2020
- Stress Manipulation Online 12/08/2020
- Download an app to subjects’ smartphones which will prompt them to answer a few questions about their mood and expectations during the day 12/08/2020
What it covers:
- Age: 18 – No upper limit
- Behavioural and fMRI study.
- Encompasses all of the labs tasks(i.e. decision making paradigms).
- Data collection is online and in lab.
- Physiological measures: Eye-gaze, pupil size, heart and breathing rate, skin conductance.
- Use of faces and scenes to evoke stress.
- Deception: for economic games.
- All questionnaires for Gillan et al Factor Analysis.
Pharmacological
Ethics Code: 8127/001
Name: Effects of dopamine and serotonin on information seeking
Committee: UCL committee
Renewal: 01/05/2021
Original ApplicationFirst approval 06/2017
Updated Consent and information sheet
Amendments
Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT)1; Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26)2; Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS-11); Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS)3.
What it covers:
- Age: 18 – No upper limit
- Behavioural study.
- Encompasses all of the labs tasks(i.e. decision making paradigms).
- Manipulation of dopamine (L-Dopa)
- Data collection is in lab only.
- All questionnaires for Gillan et al Factor Analysis.