Ethical Implications

• Ethical Guidelines: I Can't Count Dragons With People Doing Cart
• Ethical issues - aris when there is a conflict between gaining valuable research and preserving the right and dignity of participants
• Ethical guidelines: set of rules to protect those involved in research
• Ethical implications: considering the impacts of research of people in a wider context (how society will react)
• Sieber and Stanley (1988):

  Identified 4 aspects that raise ethical implications

  • The Research question - is it misleading?
  • Conduct of research and treatment of participant - confidentiality
  • The institutional context - privately funded for misuse?
  • Interpretation and application of finding
• Social sensitivity - where there are potential social consequences for the participants or the group of people represented by the research leading to a change in how they're treated eg. Bowlby's maternal deprivation
• Ethical Guidelines:

  • Informed Consent
  • Confidentiality
  • Debrief
  • Withdraw
  • Protection
  • Deception
  • Competence
• Paradigm shift - when a set of views about how behaviour is thought to be explained changes due to newly presented evidence