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Ethical issues in Psychology Use of human participants in psychological research -The specification states that the candidates should consider ethical issues involved in psychological investigations using human participants. This should include the nature and usage of ethical guidelines in Psychology. The guidelines on research Mindful of the problem research such as Milgram's raises, more recently psychologists have taken the question of ethics very seriously. The American Psychological Association's guidelines to ethical conduct are very similar to those issued by The British Psychological Society. The psychological community is answerable to the law, the public and to itself and must set and monitor its own standards of conduct. The BPS guidelines stress that psychological research should be objective, competent and nonwasteful. Psychologists' responsibilities include making their data and findings public but not in such a way that they may be misinterpreted or abused. Policy changes should not be made on the basis of psychological findings until...

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