Ethical implications

• What are ethical implications?


  Ethical guidance states that research should be free from deception, should gather informed consent, protect people from harm etc.
• What is socially sensitive research?


  Research that enforces or changes how groups or individuals could be perceived and treated by findings/conclusions proposed.
• Attachment ethical implications:

  • In Ainsworth's 'strange situation', infants are deliberately exposed to increasingly stressful situations
  • Today, there is ethical guidance which says animal suffering must be minimised, so animal studies now condemned
  • Bowlby stated that first & most important attachment is to the mother
  • Policies surrounding paid leave from work now apply to both parents regardless of gender.