L7: Ethical Implications Flashcards
What is socially sensitive?
Describes research where the topic area/group being the studied can have implications for society or certain groups. It might lead to a change in or justification for the way these groups are treated/percieved (e.g Lombroso and treatment of black people and pain)
What did Stanley and Sieber argue?
Scientists have a responsibility for the way in which their research will be used in the future.
What are the 4 aspects that raise ethical implications
1) Research Question: consider the question carefully. Asking certain questions can be damaging to particular groups (are there racial differences in intelligence)
2) Methodology: Needs to consider treatment of the participants and their right to confidentiality/anonymity
3) Instituitional Context: Mindful of how data will be used or who is funding it. If research is funded privately, why and how do they plan to use it? (MMR vaccine - Autism scandal funded by parent)
4) Interpretation and Application of Findings: How findings might be interpreted and applied to the real world. Could results be used to inform gov. policy
Evaluation of Socially Sensitive Research
+ Many grouos have suffered cinsequences of being excluded from research or being misrepresented when they have been inckuded. This has ethical implications as oeople miss oit on the benefits of psychological research
+ They develop ethical guidelines. But, these protect the immediate participants but do not deal with all the ways in which research might inflict harm on others
+ To reduce the likelihood that data is mishandled, psychologists should be energetic in taking responsibility for what happens to the findings
+ Socially sensitive resutls should be avoided all together to prevent the potential negative consequences for certain groups of people. This would leave only unimportant issues to examine
- There are always some social consequences, there is always an increased potential for an indirect impact on the group the ppt represents.
