Variables Affecting Subjects' Ethical Ratings of Proposed Experiments
- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 44 (1) , 155-164
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1979.44.1.155
Abstract
The present study examined students' ratings of ethics in psychological research. Four levels of research presentation were employed: traditional deception, sensitization, consumer-review, and informed consent. The results reaffirmed findings that students responded with significantly less concern about traditional deception in experimentation than did psychologists. Some differences were noted as a function of how the research was presented; sensitized students and consumer-review students responded in a somewhat more ethically stringent manner than did students in the other groups.Keywords
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