What risks are there to participants

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Case Study: The bystander effect is the common finding in social psychology that when a person is in need of help, help is less likely to be given when there are multiple bystanders present who could potentially help. One question about the bystander effect is whether knowing about the effect can help prevent this - whether it can make people more likely to help even when there are other people who could also potentially help. Researchers hypothesize that teaching people about the bystander effect will make them more likely to help someone in need even when there are other bystanders present who could potentially help.

Procedure: Participants will be students who are split into two groups. One group will hear a lecture about the bystander effect as part of a psychology class. Another group will hear a lecture about an unrelated topic. Several weeks after the lecture these students will be recruited for a study ostensibly being conducted by the sociology department. Upon arrival at this study, participants will be told they will be completing a survey and that they will have to go to a room down the hall to take the survey. An actor working with the researchers will appear along with the true participant and will pose as an additional participant in the study. This actor will walk with the real participant to the location where the survey is to be given. Along the route another actor will pose as a person who has just suffered an injury and who is in need of help. The actor posing as a participant will not respond to this person in need. To measure how the lecture on the bystander effect influences helping, the percentage of real participants who help that are from the group that heard the lecture on the bystander effect will be compared to the percentage of real participants who help that are from the group who heard a lecture on an unrelated topic.

Beaman, A. L., Barnes, P. J., Klentz, B., & McQuirk, B. (1978). Increasing helping rates through information dissemination: Teaching pays. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4, 406-411.

PLEASE NOTE: YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW ON THE BASIS OF WHAT I'VE WRITTEN IN THIS POST - YOU DO NOT NEED TO FIND THE ORIGINAL STUDY. (If you WANT to find it, let me know, and I may be able to help you.)

Question A) First, identify whether you think this study seems ethically sound in terms of the principle of beneficence. Write a paragraph where you say it is or not, and justify your answer. Remember that you'll need to think about and address the following issues:

1. What risks are there to participants?

2. What benefits are there to participants?

3. Does the study pose a risk to other individuals?

4. What are the possible benefits of the knowledge gained?

5. What are costs of not gaining the knowledge?

Question B) Second, does the study seem ethically sound in terms of the principle of justice? Explain your answer, being sure to consider whether there is a match between who the participants are and who will benefit from the research.

Question C) Third, does the study seem ethically sound in terms of the principle of respect? Justify your assessment - how does it or does it not show respect for persons? (For this one, you may want to consider whether/how participants might feel coerced into participating.)

Question D) What about informed consent? Based on APA ethical standards 8.02 is informed consent necessary for this study? Why or why not?

Question E) identify a DIFFERENT way that the hypothesis could be tested. How could we do this in a more ethical way?

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