The rise and fall of deception in social psychology and personality research, 1921 to 1994.Sandra D. Nicks,James H. Korn &Tina Mainieri -1997 -Ethics and Behavior 7 (1):69 – 77.detailsThe frequency of the use of deception in American psychological research was studied by reviewing articles from journals in personality and social psychology from 1921 to 1994. Deception was used rarely during the developmental years of social psychology into the 1930s, then grew gradually and irregularly until the 1950s. Between the 1950s and 1970s the use of deception increased significantly. This increase is attributed to changes in experimental methods, the popularity of realistic impact experiments, and the influence of cognitive dissonance (...) theory. Since 1980 there appears to have been a decrease in the use of deception as compared to previous decades which is related to changes in theory, methods, ethical standards, and federal regulation of research. (shrink)
The emergence of interest in the ethics of psychological research with humans.Annette Christy McGaha &James H. Korn -1995 -Ethics and Behavior 5 (2):147 – 159.detailsWe describe the growth of interest in the ethics of research with human participants based on articles abstracted in Psychological Abstracts and PsycLZT. Interest was low and variable until 1974, after which there was a marked increase in the number of articles published. We explain this emergence of ethical interest in terms of the social climate of concern for human rights in the 1960s and 1970s, the 1973 revision of the American Psychological Association's ethical principles, and the development of federal (...) regulation of research with human participants. (shrink)
Logic, ethics, and rhetoric of research on rape: A reply to Mosher and bond.James H. Korn,Timothy J. Huelsman &Cynthia K. Shinabarger Reed -1992 -Ethics and Behavior 2 (2):123 – 128.detailsMosher and Bond (this issue) suggest experimental designs that are not appropriate for the research purposes they criticize. In defending their own research, they make contradictory statements about the realism of their guided imagery procedure for simulating rape. They present data that we believe provide evidence for the possibility that wrongful harm occurred in their previous research. We assert our right to study the ethics of research and object to specious charges of having threatened sexual freedom and being associated with (...) ideologues of the right and left. (shrink)