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Research Ethics
Entries tagged research ethics.
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Little Albert
The 1920 study in which two psychologists conditioned an infant to fear a white rat, a landmark of behaviorism and one of the most ethically indefensible experiments in the field's history.
8 min
Thought experimentMilgram's Obedience Experiments
The lab studies that found most ordinary people will keep delivering apparent electric shocks to a stranger simply because a man in a lab coat tells them to continue.
10 min
ConceptResearch Ethics and Its Failures
The rules that now govern experiments on people were written in reaction to specific abuses, and each principle is a scar left by a study that went wrong.
10 min
Thought experimentThe Stanford Prison Experiment
A six-day Stanford simulation in which student guards turned abusive, taken for decades as proof of situational power until 2018 archives showed the abuse was coached, not spontaneous.
8 min