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1.) Preliminary review: Has the planned experiment already been reviewed by another ethics committee and rejected?
If yes, please provide a succinct explanation.
2.) Physical integrity: Are physiological interventions or the administration of pharmaceutically active substances planned? (Note: Eye-tracking studies are considered unproblematic if informed consent is given.)
If yes, please provide a succinct explanation.
3.) Psychological integrity: Are the test subjects deliberately placed in psychologically or emotionally extreme stressful situations or is it to be expected that such situations will occur for the subjects or for others during the course of the experiment?
If yes, please provide a succinct explanation.
4.) Deception: Are you planning to use any deception in your study?
If yes, please provide a succinct explanation.
5.) Does the study involve querying subjects on the following topics?
a) Their past sexual activities
If yes, please provide a succinct explanation.
b) Their past illegal behavior
If yes, please provide a succinct explanation.
c) Their past experiences of violence or abuse
If yes, please provide a succinct explanation.
d) Their past drug use
If yes, please provide a succinct explanation.
6.) Freedom of choice: Are subjects or other affected persons subjected to coercive situations (i.e., situations that they can only leave at disproportionate cost)?
If yes, please provide a succinct explanation.
7.) Material losses: Are the subjects threatened with material losses from their own assets? (i.e., not taking into account the experimental payoffs), about whose existence and possible extent of which they have not been informed beforehand?
If yes, please provide a succinct explanation.
8.) Criminal acts: Is it to be expected that illegal or even criminal acts (of the scientist) will occur in the course of the experiment? We mean criminal acts (on the part of the scientist, the subjects, or on the part of third parties)?
If yes, please provide a succinct explanation.
9.) Subjects in need of protection: Do subjects take part who are under special legal protection (e.g., children, persons with disabilities, or others in need of protection)?
If yes, please provide a succinct explanation.
10.) Animal experimentation: Are live animals used in the experiment?
If yes, please provide a succinct explanation.
11.) Are there any other aspects in your experiment that could be considered ethically problematic?
If yes, please provide a succinct explanation.
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