In an effort to understand how group dynamics change under duress, a research team gathers 100 people at a remote mountain location, bringing them all in by helicopter. Using carefully designed interviews, the researchers begin the lengthy process of interviewing the participants. After the second day, however, there are a dozen participants who express unhappiness and want to leave. The research team reminds them that they signed an agreement agreeing to be interviewed knowing what it entailed, that leaving is not practical and that they need to continue with the process. The research team is failing to fulfill what cardinal rule of research?
a.) ensuring voluntary participation
b.) obtaining informed consent
c.) notifying their home institution
d.) protecting a vulnerable population
Answer: a.) ensuring voluntary participation
FEEDBACK: Voluntary participation is the right of a research subject to decide whether to participate in a study. Participants in a research study must be allowed to stop participating at any point during the study.
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