The questionnaire takes around 10-15 minutes. You'll be asked about how you react to sounds and the emotions you feel. We will not play any sounds. Please read our ethical code below, and check the box to show you have understood it.

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OUR ETHICAL CODE 

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The purpose of our research is to advance knowledge of sound sensitivities, so we will process your personal information and test responses to that end. Your decision whether to take part is voluntary and you can stop and withdraw at any point during the study without giving a reason (although it won't be practically possible to withdraw your data once you have finished and submitted the test). When the test is done, your anonymous results will enter into our secure database you will receive your score and automatic feedback about how this might relate to sound sensitivities. From time to time we also re-contact certain people to take part in further studies, and if you wish to do this, you can opt-in at the end by providing contact details (although you are not obliged to do this, and even if you do so, you are under no obligation to take part in the future). Your personal information will remain confidential and be handled in accordance with UK data protection legislation, subject to legal limitations. We will store your personal data securely in a password-protected file on a University server, and will not reveal them to any third party outside our research group, without your written permission. Results are published only anonymously/ statistically (in scientific reports resulting from this research and/or in data repositories for other researchers). This research program is ongoing and your data will be held until it is no longer scientifically valuable or cannot reasonably be maintained. This research has been approved by the Sussex SciTec Ethics Committee (C-REC: ref = ER/JCS41/47). University of Sussex has insurance in place to cover its legal liabilities in respect of this study. If you have any ethical concerns, please email the project supervisor (j.simner@sussex.ac.uk) or ethics chair (crecscitecchair@sussex.ac.uk). Contact details of our Data Protection Officer, along with your rights in respect of processing, are found here [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ogs/policies/information/dpa/privacynotice]. You can print this screen for your records. Components of this test are copyright to Simner 2016 and Simner/Rinaldi 2020. You must be 16 years or older to consent. University of Sussex has insurance in place to cover its legal liabilities in respect of this study.

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