101183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stanley Milgram, Confounding, Sample Size Determination
3 Sep 2018
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Todays outline: what makes bad research, ethics, the scientific process, confounding variables. Ethics: the following studies display a lack of ethics. Emotion: ax (1953) conducted a study to compare the experience of fear and anger. Landis (2924) conducted a study to measure the facial reactions of participants. Conditioned fear: watson & raynor (2920) demonstrated a conditioned emotional response (fear) in 11-month- old little albert, an unsuspecting infant placed in watson"s care while his mother was at work. In 1963, stanley milgram created an experiment to see if participants would follow orders even when the requested behaviour went against their moral beliefs or good judgement. Informed consent: harm minimization (burden vs. benefit, participants rights - e. g. to leave the experiment at any time without penalty, deception and debriefing, privacy, ethical treatment of animals, benefit > cost. "the core of science is not a mathematical model; it is intellectual honesty. " (harris, 2006)
