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Risks and Benefits to Research Participants
When weighing risks against benefits in psychological research, investigators must consider the potential impacts on the participants themselves. Risks to participants may include a treatment failing to help or causing harm, a procedure resulting in physical or psychological distress, or a violation of their right to privacy. Conversely, potential benefits can encompass receiving a helpful treatment, learning about the field of psychology, experiencing the satisfaction of contributing to scientific knowledge, and receiving compensation such as money or course credit.
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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.