I would like to hear comments from more experienced experimental researchers about standard practices for recruiting and compensating participants in consumer and marketing experiments. What are the pros and cons of using student participants? (I know there was a debate about this in the literature a few years ago, but what is the current prevailing opinion?) Is there a difference between using...

GARY R. BIRCHLER, Ph.D., is clinical pro­ fessor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and adjunct professor at San Diego State University and the University of San Diego. He serves as co­ director of the UCSD/Veterans Affairs (VA) Psychology Internship Program and director of the Family Mental Health Program, VA San Diego Healthcare System. Dr. Bi...

LINDA A. DIMEFF, PH.D., is a chief sci­ entific officer at Behavioral Tech Research, Inc., a research organization dedicated to the dissemination of evidence-based prac­ tices (EBPs). She is also a clinical instructor in the Department of Psychology at the Uni­ versity of Washington. Her research inter­ ests include EBPs, addictive behaviors, dialec­ tical behavior therapy (DBT), and the adapta...

ROBERT K. BROONER, Ph.D., is profes­ sor of medical psychology at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, and he directs JHU’s Addiction Treatment Services at Bayview Medical Center. He has worked in the field of behavioral science and sub­ stance abuse for 20 years and has published extensively in research areas including alco­ holism, injection drug abuse, multiple diagnoses in drug abus...

LINDA CHANG, M.D., is professor of medi­ cine at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii and codirector of the University of Hawaii–Queen’s Medical Center Magnetic Resonance Research Program. She has extensive experience in clinical neuroscience research, particularly in the application of advanced neuroimaging techniques to study brain changes associated with HIV infec...

The recruitment of respondents belonging to ethnic minorities poses important challenges in social and health research. This paper reflects on the enablers and barriers to recruitment that we encountered in our research work with persons belonging to ethnic minorities. Additionally, we applied the Matching Model of Recruitment, a theoretical framework concerning minority recruitment, to guide o...