You might want to ask – what is Research Ethics? In our line of work, we study human behavior, which means we do experiments on or with human. Has it every occur to you that the subjects, also known as participant, in our interviews or experiments, might suffer from physical and psychological “damages”, whether minor or major.
Of course, if most of our studies, it is unlikely that the participants would get impacted, whether physically or psychologically, within or after the interviews/experiments. However, in some studies, in particular psychology, behavior, or medical-related studies, research ethics is playing an important role.
I am going to share two “famous” examples in the domain or research ethics, the Little Albert experiment in 1920 and the Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971.