Best or Close Friends in Relationships

This is an online experiment about friendships for researchers at the DePaul University.  If you are interested in participating, please read through this consent form and click on "I agree" to proceed.  Please note that you must be 18 years of age or older. Once you complete this survey, you will have a chance to enter in a drawing for prizes ($25 and $50 gift cards to Target and Best Buy).

Thank you for your interest!!!

NgocAnna P. Huynh - Woodford
DePaul University

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Information Sheet for Participation in Research Study

We are asking you to be in a research study because we are trying to learn more about feelings and behaviors which may arise once a best/close friend enters into a new dating relationship with someone else.  This study will take less than 1 hour of your time.  If you agree to be in this study, you will be asked to read a scenario describing a situation involving you and your best/close friend and will be asked to imagine that you are experiencing it.  Upon completion of the experiment, you will be asked to answer questions about your perception and emotions of the described situation/scenario.  You can choose not to participate.  There will be no negative consequences if you decide not to participate or change your mind later.

If you have questions about this study, please contact NgocAnna P. Huynh - Woodford at nhuynh@depaul.edu.  If you have questions about your rights as a research subject, you may contact Shay-Ann Heiser Singh, Coordinator of the DePaul University's Institutional Review Board at 312-362-7593 or by email at sheiser@depaul.edu.

Confidentiality Note:  The information that you give in the study will be handled confidentially.  To protect your privacy and increase the confidentiality of the information that you provide, we will not record any identifying information, so there will be no way to tell which data came from a particular person.  When the study is completed and the data have been analyzed, the information will be destroyed. 


You may keep this information for your records.  Please feel free to print a copy of this page.


Agree:
If you AGREE to participate in the research study described above, click on the phrase to the right:   I AGREE
 

Do Not Agree:
If you DO NOT AGREE to participate in the research study described above,
click on the phrase to the right:   I DO NOT AGREE