Ethics in Psychology

  • 6500 BCE

    Demonic Behavior

    Researchers thought abnormal behavior was caused by demonic possession, so they used methods of trephination to experiment.
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    Alabama sharecroppers

    600 poor black farmers were studied by the US public health service to document diseases in blacks, without telling them about the diseases or curing them
  • Nazi Concentration Camp Experiments

    Nazis would perform experiments on homosexuals, jews, and other people they did not see as the Arien race.
  • Post WW2

    After WW2 a set of ethical laws were put in place to protect humans
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    Nuremburg Code

    Code was designed to set regulations for experiments on humans to protect them.
  • Tearoom Trade Studies

    Researcher Laud Humphries would act as a homosexual man to observe public behaviors
  • Zimbardo Prison Experiment

    24 prisoners were selected at random to act as prisoners and guards and it was found that reasonable people can change when backed by ideological authority
  • Belmont Report

    The National Commision for the Protection of human subjects of biomedical and behavioral studies met and released the Belmont Report to clarify experiments
  • Federal Laws

    Federal laws were put in place to protect human participants in experiments.
  • Privacy

    HIPA requires researchers to keep results found in experiments private from the publics eye.
  • Nowadays

    Today, research is guided by ethics code under standard 8 of the American Psychological Association to protect human participants.