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Tuskeegee Syphilis Study
In 1932, In Macon County Alabama the Tuskeegee Institute began a studyon that involved 600 african americans in order to record the "natural history" of syphilis. During the study out of the 600 african americans, 399 men had syphilis and 201 men did not have the disease. All of the participants did not legally consent to be reserached with this disease, This is interesting to becasue even thought the men had not consented to this experiment the syphilis study was still continued -
Stanley Milgram: Obedience
Physcologist Stanley Milgram wanted to investigate whether or not Germans were particularly obedient to authority figures. Milgram selected participants for his experiemtn via newspaper advertising. The participants were 40 males between the ages of 20-50.
I think this is experiment is interesting and dangerous because at any point the shokcing can go wrong and can cause futher damage to the participants. -
Tearoom Trade
Researcher Laud Humphrey pretended to be a member of a homosexual community in oder to observe the behavior which occured in public places or "tea rooms" he was exposed to many homosexual encounters. I think this is interesting because he was pretending to be homosexual just to get information about people who were homosexuals who might've been hiding their sexuality because of the era they lived in. -
Zimbardo Prision Experiment
Researcher Philip Zimbaro and his colleauges were interested in finding out whether the brutality reported among guards in American prisons were due to sadistic personalities of the guards or if it had more to do with the prision enviroment.
I think this is a good idea because many prison guards abuse their higher power over the inmates and end up abusing or asulting inmates just because they have a "higher role".