Sunday, September 16, 2012

the importance of ethic in psychology research

        

           The ethical potential issues is not been taking serious until relatively recent time psychology research did not have ethical and many studies were conducted that had significant problem in past 100 years. After that, there are  different organizations that prevent such unethical   problem happen, such as British psychology council and American psychology association .




there are many unethical experiments  happened in past 100 years and here is 2 examples,

Landi's Facial experiment

        


         In 1924, Carney Landis designed an experiment to study weather emotions evoke universal facial expression facial, for example if people shows a specific expressions used by all to convey shock or disgust?
this intention seems like a normal question,however, Land's methods of testing were extremely abnormal. 


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