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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

Update Consent

Information 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 Application

First approval 06/2017

Original Application

Updated Consent and information sheet

Consent Dopamine

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.