Ethics

• Psychological harm

  • Participants believed they were giving eletric shocks and harming people which led to some convulsions and stuttering
  • This couldve been dealt with by: debrief sooner, background check, anonymous
• Deception

  • Participants thought study was on memory
  • Recordings of eletric shocks as fake
  • Confederate
  • Rigged slip
  • Deal with: debrief sooner
• Right to withdraw

  • Believed they couldnt as payed $4.50
  • Prompted “Please continue“

  How to deal: make it clear they can withdraw
• Valid consent

  • Didnt know full aim of study

  Deal with: could have used prior or presumptive consent
• Internal validity

  • Participant effects
  • Social desirability bias as guessed
  • Researcher bias
• Sample

  • All men, biased (ethnocentric)
  • All American (androcentric) culturally biased
• Procedure

  • Controlled therefore artifical lacking mundane realism lowering ecological validity