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This innovative text offers a completely integrated approach to teaching research methods and statistics by presenting a research question accompanied by the appropriate methods and statistical procedures needed to address it. Research questions and designs become more complex as chapters progress, building on simpler questions to reinforce student learning. Using a conversational style and research examples from published works, this comprehensive book walks readers through the entire research process and includes ample pedagogical support for SPSS, Excel, and APA style.
Ethical Research
Ethical Research
Conducting research is a privilege. Many groups must be protected, including participants, psychology departments, schools, the discipline of psychology, coresearchers, coauthors, and people who read our publications. When subjects are creatures other than humans, like rats, monkeys, or pigeons, protection includes them as well. We have a responsibility to conduct research ethically. In this chapter, we will explain the many facets of ethical research.
Ethical Treatment of Participants
Before we dive into how to protect participants, we would like to explain why we take such care with people involved in research. The history of research is bruised by many atrocities committed in the name of science. As one prominent example, in 1932, black men in rural Alabama joined the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. (These men ...
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