Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 1 Introduction and Background; 4 2 Rationales, Definitions, and Procedures Related to Research Not Involving Human Subjects and the Proposed Excused Category of Research; 5 3 Determining Minimal Risk in Social and Behavioral Research; 6 4 Informed Consent; 7 5 Informational Risk in the Social and Behavioral Sciences; 8 6 Improving the IRB Process; 9 Appendix A: Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects ("Common Rule"); 10 Appendix B: Table of Committee-Recommended Levels of IRB Review and Oversight; 11 Appendix C: Acronyms; 12 Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members