The History of research in Psychology

Trephination practices

6500 BCE

The labeled "Medicine Man" would drill holes in so called demon sick people skulls to release demons. Many died right away from these inhuman practices.

Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments

1932

Trials of documented black men who had the syphilis disease and many weren't treated properly. They refused many black men to receive the penicillin shot.

Nazi concentration Camp Experiments

1935

Homosexual jewish men would go through Sleep deprivation, unneeded surgeries with enhanced morphine, and pure physical and psychological torture.

Zimbardo Prison Experiment

1971

The study revealed how reasonable people could become unreasonable and even sadistic when backed by ideological authority.

The Belmont Report

1979

Gives principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research.