10.18130/MSX9-8854
Anonymous,
Anonymous
Bypassing the IRB
Online Ethics Center
2016
Educational Resource
Human Subjects Research
Informed Consent
Institutional Review Boards
Research and Practice
2016
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When a graduate student in psychology proposes a novel approach for conducting an experiment for his dissertation, he decides that he does not have time to submit his proposal to his university's institutional review board before he needs to get the pilot experiment finished. This case explores when experiments need IRB approval.