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Research ethics
Modern psychology's ethical machinery - review boards, consent forms, debriefings - was not built on goodwill; it was built on outrage. This topic covers the rules researchers must follow today, the failures that forced those rules into existence, and why the field keeps enforcing them on itself.
In this topic
- Why research needs rules
- The Institutional Review Board
- Informed consent
- Deception and debriefing
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- Animal research and the IACUC
- Worked example: a study's ethical audit
- Worked example: where the line falls on deception
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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