SOCPSY 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dementia, Scientific Community, Stanford Prison Experiment

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2K03
• Professor: Anna Janzen

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Mreb: mcmaster faculty, students, staff, review all non-medical research involving human participants, ensure safety and wellbeing of human participants, education of university community, policy setting, ethical conduct. Importance: for the participant, treat them with respect, for the researcher, want to know that all research has followed guidelines, so that we have good evidence/research, for the research. If you do things unethically, all the research goes in the trash. Ethical principles: minimize harm, power dynamic, maximize benefits, cost of research, funding. Ethics: participants: safeguard human dignity, respect, welfare, justice. Participants: respect: people, not objects, consent voluntary. Informed: right to withdraw, deception, must debrief and explain actual actions/reason for experiment. Participant: welfare: ensure well-being of participants, anonymity, survey: no name use. Participant: justice: do not harm, physical, psychological, e. g. Ethics: researcher: conflicts of interest, report results consistent with data, personal integrity, effect on career, funding, whistle-blowing. Integrity of research: validity, reliability, social consequences, e. g.