Social Sensitivity

• When may research be socially sensitive?

  -results have implications that go beyond research and influence ppts involved

  -findings affect others negatively

  -People are treated differently due to findings

  -topic is confidential
• Why is Obedience and Milgram socially sensitive?

  -results imply all of us would blindly obey orders and purposefully hurt someone else

  -some may feel offended by this
• Why is brain functioning and Raine socially sensitive?

  -people who are pleading NGRI may not be seen as responsible for their actions

  -particularly sensitive to families of victims
• How is clinical psychology and Rosenhan socially sensitive?

  -may be worrying to find out that the hospitals are not reliable in diagnosing

  -difficult for the nurses who may lose their jobs

  -pseudo patients took places in the hospital that people who were actually ill could have used.