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Question - Psychology Discussion
Primary Response - Within the Discussion Board area, write 300-500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
For this Discussion Board, please complete the following:
Research studies in the social sciences have not always been carried out in an ethical manner. Many research studies have harmed participants. A well-known example is the Stanford prison experiment. Watch this video for an explanation of how the Stanford prison experiment was carried out. Address the following:
What kind of short- and/or long-term harm do you think the participants in this study could have experienced?
If you were a researcher conducting a similar study, how would you do it more ethically? Please include details on what you would change about the prison study.
Because parts of this study are considered unethical, do you think that using the results of the study to help researchers understand human behavior is also unethical? Why or why not?