Task description
In the next few minutes, you will participate in a one-way video interview and respond to questions about yourself.
The video interview consists of 6 questions and is expected to last 10 to 15 minutes.
During the interview, the questions will be presented on your screen, and you will reply verbally using your web camera and microphone.
The whole process is automatic, with no human interviewer involved.
After the interview, you will complete a personality inventory, which consists of 104 questions,
and provide demographic information and feedback about the experience. This part is expected to also take 10 to 15 minutes.
We will use your answers to the personality questionnaire to optimize the automatic scoring procedure of the video interviews.
While you are completing this inventory, your interview responses will be analyzed.
At the end of this experience, you will receive feedback on the emotions you displayed in the video interview.
Confidentiality
This study is anonymous and all data will be used strictly for research purposes.
The study follows the rules and regulations of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR; A detailed description can be found here)
regarding privacy and data processing. All necessary measures will be taken by the researcher
to preserve your confidentiality including the following:
- All data will be treated confidentially.
Code numbers will be assigned to participants that will be used on all research notes and documents.
- Responses, recordings, and any other identifying participant information will be kept in secured (encrypted) servers,
accessible only to the principal and co-researchers.
Note that your data will be kept confidential except in cases where the researcher is legally obligated to report specific incidents.
These incidents include, but may not be limited to, incidents of abuse and suicide risk.
Data management and use
During the study, personality scores, demographic information, a
nd video data will be collected and stored for further analysis.
Some personal data (e.g., ethnicity) are considered sensitive,
but their inclusion is necessary to minimize - as much as possible – potential sources of biased results
(e.g., ethnic background bias).
To ensure the privacy of personal information, all data will be stored in a secure and encrypted environment
until the completion of the data analysis process. After that, data will be archived and kept safe for at least 10 years.
During this period, data can be accessed only by authorized researchers involved in the present study. It is possible
that the data will be re-analyzed in the future (e.g., to test alternative important research questions, upon request from other researchers).
Following the Open Science framework, after the end of the study, metadata (that is, de-indentified meaningful numerical values extracted from the raw data
(e.g., video), but not the raw data itself) from both parts of the study will be merged into a single file and become publicly available in an open data repository
(DataverseNL). This is considered a good practice to promote the transparency of scientific research. Metadata do not contain any identifying information,
thus anonymity is ensured.
Contact information
If you have questions about the study, or if you experience adverse effects as the result of participating in this study,
you may contact the main researchers (123test.gfb@vu.nl ).
For any issues regarding your data you can contact the principal
researcher or the data protection officer of the VU University Amsterdam
(functionarisgegevensbescherming@vu.nl ).
Rights
You do have the right to withdraw your consent without consequences by contacting the principal researchers
(123test.gfb@vu.nl).
In case you decide to withdraw your consent, please do this soon after the completion of the study.
If data analysis process has begun, it might be difficult or impossible to delete your data.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you think your rights have been violated
(in The Netherlands this is the AutoriteitPersoonsgegevens - autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl ).
