Purpose & Procedures
You are invited to participate in a research study that is being conducted by the Social Cognition Lab at Rutgers University. The project involves several simple categorization tasks and a brief demographic questionnaire. It has been approved by the Rutgers University Institutional Review Board. The only restriction to participating in this research is fluency in English. Approximately 300 participants will take part in this brief study. If you have accessed this survey through the Rutgers University participant pool website, in exchange for your participation today, you will receive .5 RPU. If you are interested in participating please read the remainder of this consent form and click on the "I agree" button if you understand the statements and freely consent to participate in the study.

Risks & Benefits
There are no forseeable risks to participation in this study. To protect the integrity of the research, the hypothesis cannot be fully revealed to you at this time. However, they will be revealed following your participation in the study. Although we cannot guarantee that you will personally benefit from your participation, we believe that this experience may be an interesting opportunity to think about your political preferences. Furthermore, your participation will benefit social scientific research. This session will take no more than 15 minutes, and participation is completely voluntary. You may withdraw at any time.

If you agree to participate in the study, the website will assign you a random participant number to keep track of your responses, but this number can not be connected back to you. Therefore, you responses are completely anonymous. The researcher will not be able to identify the source of any information supplied by you during the course of the session. Furthermore, my research team and the Institutional Review Board at Rutgers University are the ony parties that will be allowed to see the data. In any written reports or publications, no one will be identified or identifiable and only aggregate data will be presented.

If you have any questions about the research now, or in the future, please email: RUSocialLab@gmail.com.

The study described above has been explained to me.  I voluntarily consent to participate in this activity.  I have had an opportunity to email the principal investigator with questions.  I understand that future questions I may have about the research will be answered promptly by the investigator listed above. I understand that I may withdraw from the study at any time. If I have any questions about my rights as a research participant, I may contact the Rutgers University Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at (732) 932-0150, ext. 2104. Address: 3 Rutgers Plaza, New Brunswick, NJ.