Why are ethics important in psychological research?

Ethics in Psychological Research

A sample of issues in ethicsInformed consent

• Camp Lazaer – the first case of informed consent

The Institutionalization of informed consent

• Nuremberg trialsPre 1980’s research

•The CIA and Ewan Cameron’s LSD research•Harlow’s monkeys

Post 1980’s research•Human and animal experimentation

The Institutionalization of informed consent

• Nuremberg trialsPre-1980’s Research• LSD Research

• Frank Olsen• Prostitution• Ewan Cameron

1.Sleep therapyAdminister sleep inducing drugs and paralytic agents for months at a time while playing repetitivemessages to the sleeping patient

2. Depatterning phaseHigh doses of electroshock, LSD and sensory deprivation

One variation of Ewan Cameron’s treatment for mental illness

3.Repatterning phaseOnce again administer sleep inducing drugs and paralytic agents for months at a time while playingrepetitive messages to the sleeping patient

The Institutionalization of informed consent

• Nuremberg trialsPre-1980’s Research• LSD Research

• Frank Olsen• Prostitution• Ewan CameronHarlow’s motherless monkeys

Post 1980’s human and animal research

Deception• No other way to get results• Minimal risk• All participants must be debriefed

Humans

AnimalsThe three R’s

• Reduction• Refinement• Replacement