Ethics

Ethics in Social Psychology Research

When most people think of ethics or morals they think of determining what is right and wrong. Like say a doctor with the Hippocratic Oath “First of all, do no harm.” Then some may look at the 10 Commandments and pattern morals and ethics from that or from others things being religious or otherwise. This is the most common way of describing ethics as the norms for conduct that distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Most of the time we learn our ethics or morals from home, school and other social settings. Seeing how other people act and what they do, and if it is wrong the consequences’ and if right the reward or the acceptance of that behavior. Many different disciplines, institutions and professions have their own ideas of ethical behavior. This the normal way things are performed or how situations are handled. There are several codes and polities for research ethics. These codes would be honesty, be truthful on all data, reports, methods, procedures and publication status. Objectivity, work hard to avoid bias in your research and disclose things that could affect the outcome of your research. Integrity is important in research because it goes to show your character and if it is good people will trust your findings and take you serious. Several other things that play a role in the ethics of research are carefulness, openness, respect for intellectual property, confidentiality and many other things but these are a few. What it all boils down to is that if you have good ethics and morals in your research people will follow your research and it will be of a great credit to yourself and the institution that you are with while doing this research.

In Milgram`s study he used deception and as we know that is not ethical to do. I do not think that Milgram`s study could be done today because of the deception in the study and there is no way to take that element out of it. The obedience that he is...