Lecture 2: Ethics
8/29/05, 8/31/05
- What do we mean by "Ethics?"
- How we treat human participants
- How we treat animal subjects
- How we treat the data we get from them
- Human Research
- Costs vs. Benefits - IRB
- Institutional Review Board
- Around 5 or more people
- Nearly all places conducting research
- Assessment of "risk"
- Expedited Reviews
- Formal Reviews
- What gets expedited vs. sent to full review sometimes depends
- Informed Consent
- Participants should have a good enough idea of what they’re getting into so they can make an informed decision whether to participate or not
- Deception
- Can quit at any time without penalty
- Compensation does not "compel" people to participate
- Contact information of researcher
- Opportunity to ask questions
- Not needed when:
- Special Populations
- Treating Participants Well
- Debriefing
- Confidentiality
- Historical Landmarks (Landmines?)
- Little Albert (1920’s)
- Tuskegee (1930’s - 70’s)
- Willowbrook (1956 - 70’s)
- MK-ULTRA (1950’s)
- Stanley Milgram (1960’s)
- Stanford Prison Study (1971) Phil Zimbardo
- Animal Research
- Do animals have the same rights as humans?
- On the "yes" side:
- On the "not quite" side:
- Use of animals in psychological research
- Confirmation of activist claims?
- Benefits for animals
- When is it ok to use animals for research where we wouldn’t use humans?
- Appropriate animal care
- Limit use for educational purposes
- Data Falsification
- Make data up completely
- Suppress results from failed studies
- Alter/omit data to make results "better"
- Sometimes it is appropriate to drop participants
- report how the results turn out both with and without the dropped participants
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Last updated: 8/26/05