Informed consent
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The participants of an experiment need to be informed in details of what is going to happen to them, and explain if there will be any short-term or long-term effects that they might encounter, before the participants decide to be a part of the experiment or not. No participants will be pressed into experiments against their will. If experiment is going to be done with children, the review board wants to see both the parents and the children’s permission to proceed. For example, if we are doing an experiment of on which color is most favor by children, we have to explain in details of how our procedure is going to be like, and if there is any effects to the children to their parents first. If we get consent from their parents, we need to get the child’s permission if we could precede the experiment with him/her. Everyone has the right to know what will happen to them before an experiment is done on them.
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