BEHS210 Week Seven Discussion Topic: Research Ethics

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Instructions

The Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram’s experiments on obedience and authority, and Laud Humphrey’s work in understanding tearoom culture are three well-known examples of social science studies that have been critiqued extensively in ethical terms. For this discussion, choose one of these examples and do the following: 

· Choose one of the codes of ethics you read this week and analyze the example you chose from the perspective of this code of ethics. What was/were the main ethical problem(s)?

· What steps could the researchers in the example you chose have taken to better protect the participants in their research? Why? 

Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your classmates. For each response, consider the example or the ethical problem they identified from the perspective of a different code of ethics than the one they chose.  

Provide your initial post by 11:59 pm on Sunday. Your initial post should be at least 200 words, excluding the discussion prompt and the references. Please use in-text APA citations within your post as well as full APA references at the end of your post.