evaluation of ethical implications

Question 1

strength of social sensitive research (SSR)

Answer 1

The benefit it has for groups, can study groups are often marginalised or ignored such as homosexuality. Before research is reported stated homosexuality is a typical expression of human sexual behaviour, it was pathologised and listed as a sociopathic personality disorder. Therefore it shows how SSR can have a positive impact on society. however, they can be negative consequences of this as researchers are found a criminal gene, so if this is true it would mean that a criminal should be excused from the actions as they cannot be held responsible for this

Question 2

limitation of SSR

Answer 2

One limitation is to avoid doing it, around 95% of non-sensitive proposals that didn’t include ethical problems were approved where are sensitive proposals will only approve 50% of the time, the limitation because no changes will be made to society and we will be missing out valuable opportunities to investigate important topics which would give us groundbreaking findings and conclusions- if we choose to ignore them we would be making such topics more taboo

Question 3

one strength of SSR

Answer 3

Real world application, we have been able to develop new important policies as these policies rely on scientific research and the same research is used in psychological research, this therefore means it gives it scientific credibility as it can change laws- psychologist have an important role to play in carrying out high-quality SSR to enable policies to be developed