Comments on: 5 Unethical Psych Experiments

By: Brooklynn

Brooklynn — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:57:11 +0000

1. Little Albert WAS and orphan
2. No one knows whether or not he was reconditioned because he was adopted and never heard from again.
3. The Stanford Prison Study caused severe psychological damage causing them to stop the study eight days earlier than expected.

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Folens Psychology - Blog » Blog Archive » Ethics — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:09:44 +0000

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By: Prodnose

Prodnose — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:50:36 +0000

Put on a white coat, and you can do absolutely anything you like, if you tell people that it is in the cause of science and advancement.

By: Scled1007

Scled1007 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:08:34 +0000

Shoot, the U.S. can’t even begin to touch the experiments that the Nazis and Japanese performed. Go look up T4, or Japans occupancy in northern china during WW 2 with all the crazy plague and bio weapons testing… then come back. I mention these, because they weren’t just physical experiments, they would also induce various mental states to see if could be a catalyst for death.

By: pinpower

pinpower — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:53:04 +0000

Milgrams should not neccesarily been on the list. Yeah its pretty unethical but nowhere near as bad as some people are making out (and making far too big a deal about…seriously…). Nobody was physically hurt, participants were debriefed and they werent forced to do anything, they were asked and “persuaded” (“the experiment requires you continue” and stuff like that). Yeah it was unethical as they were paid, there was an amount of deception and they briefly thought another participant was being shocked but it was nowhere near as bad as you make out.

Also, the experiment told us a hell of a lot about human nature and the effects of/peoples reactions to authority. Was especially relevant at the time, not THAT long after the second world war and just months after the trial of a number of Nazi war criminals.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:28:07 +0000

the first thing that came to mind is the milgram experiement, where is it?

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By: darkstar

darkstar — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:10:15 +0000

The Milgram Experiment definitely had some very unethical issues. You’re supposed to weigh the risk with the benefits. The risk far outweighed the benefits. And there were many more ethical ways to study the exact same theory.

Also, to whoever said the Prison experiment wasn’t unethical, you need to see the original recordings. So many of the prisoners were emotionally crippled. Many of them suffered form long term PTSD and other anxiety related disorders.

And, on the topic of Little Albert: the synopsis provided said nothing about Spontaneous Regeneration of the conditioned response. It’s been proven that people that are conditioned to a stimulus witha certain response can randomly display the conditioned response long after extinction.
And another issue with it was the fact that the conditioned response generalized to anything that resembled the animal used for the unconditioned stimulus. At one point Little Albert was even scared by a researchers head because it was “white and fluffy”

By: B Nelson

B Nelson — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:46:57 +0000

And we think Nazis held cruel experiments, these are insane!

By: Anatoliy

Anatoliy — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:53:23 +0000

@sportpsyc
You’re saying the Milgram experiment is unethical because people discovered they’re sick and demented beings, and then sued because of it? That’s complete crap, those people were responsible for their own actions. If they’re horrified by the fact that they could have killed someone maybe they should have though about what they were doing. People like to use this psychological crap as an excuse for their actions, saying they were merely following orders, but they should be directly held responsible.