Comments on: Top 10 Unethical Psychological Experiments

By: Repost From NB: A day late and a dollar short » KATY STAUBER

Repost From NB: A day late and a dollar short » KATY STAUBER — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:40:15 +0000

[...] are three classic examples of social psychology experiments which show how easy it is to be evil. What’s more interesting is that all of these experiments are now banned since so many of the participants suffered long term psychological trauma from discovering that [...]

By: Blogging prompt, due 1/24 « Health (=) Literacy

Blogging prompt, due 1/24 « Health (=) Literacy — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:49:55 +0000

[...] and the processes involved in designing and conducting ethical research with human subjects. A lot of bad things have been done in the name of research, as you’ll see in our readings for [...]

By: Babel Babilonico

Babel Babilonico — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:48:35 +0000

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By: Scratchpad by psychophant - Pearltrees

Scratchpad by psychophant - Pearltrees — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:43:14 +0000

[...] Top 10 Unethical Psychological Experiments – Top 10 Lists | Listverse 1924 Landis’ Facial Expressions Experiment In 1924, Carney Landis, a psychology graduate at the University of Minnesota developed an experiment to determine whether different emotions create facial expressions specific to that emotion. The aim of this experiment was to see if all people have a common expression when feeling disgust, shock, joy, and so on. 6 [...]

By: Ammara

Ammara — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:43:27 +0000

that’s wonderful. I impressed.
it’s a miracle that I impressed

By: 125up

125up — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:52:58 +0000

why was milgram and zimbargo unethical? very important experiments – however the rest seems to be both useless and unethical

By: Katia

Katia — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:31:11 +0000

#2 was a little misconstrued in the implications of the research.

The research was initially done due to the overwhelming deaths of children in orphanages. All these children were dying for no apparent reason even though they were given food and shelter.

He was trying to see if the baby monkeys would rather have a cloth mother without a teet giving milk (a basic need like that given to the orophans) or a wire rack with a teet. They preferred the cloth mother, showing that it was more important to them to have physical bonding than plain sustanance.

The more controversial part of the experiment was where there was only a wire rack with a teet. Those monkeys became very distressed.

After studying this in psychology, we were asked if this experiment was justified. I didn’t think so to begin with, but in the end, it saved a lot of orphaned childrens lives. Due to this research the entire system in orphanages was changed and the life span of the orphans increased due to more human contact.

So while I agree that what happened to those monkeys was horrible (i admit, i cried watching the video on it), so was the situation in the orphanages. I don’t think this deserved #2.

By: ArchAngel Institute » Blog Archive » Science and the Discovery of God’s Law, Part III, Psychobabylon

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:36:47 +0000

[...] and modified is itself an unspeakable evil. But science needs to have objects to experiment on. So psychologists turn persons into objects of quality control, for the experiments to determine the accept/reject stamp. But their definition of “good” and [...]

By: um1928

um1928 — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:35:20 +0000

i don’t see how it is unethical to experiment on animals. If those are unethical, we should stop all animal trials and do experiments on humans instead.

#1 is freakingly disturbing. Also I am fascinated by people who were able to teach monkey to do injections (how is it possible?)

By: bob saget

bob saget — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:15:24 +0000

whats unethical about the first one?