Debriefing

Unjustifiable Research Harm

APA Ethics Code

Humane Care and Use of Animals in Research

Beneficiaries of Psychological Research

Unethical Research Motivations

Risks and Benefits to Research Participants

Risks and Benefits to Science and Society

Ethical Implications of the Milgram Experiment

Why can the ethical evaluation of weighing a study's risks against its benefits be particularly challenging for psychological researchers?

A psychological study can be considered ethically acceptable even when the research participants themselves bear most of the risks, as long as the potential benefits to the broader scientific community or society are judged to sufficiently outweigh those risks.

A researcher proposes a study to test if mild electric shocks can improve concentration in students with ADHD. To evaluate the ethics of this study, match each study element to its corresponding category in a risk-benefit analysis.

A researcher is evaluating the ethicality of a study on how social isolation affects mental health. Arrange the following steps in the logical order required to effectively weigh the potential risks of the study against its potential benefits.

Because the potential risks to individual participants and the potential benefits to the scientific community are not measured in the same units, the process of deciding if a study is justified requires an inherently subjective ethical ____.