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Conrad Oakley 26 April 2007 To what extent can the ethical guidelines ensure that the major ethical issues involved in social influence research are properly dealt with? When using human beings in psychological research, questions have to be immediately asked about the dignity and rights of participants. The need for some guidelines set in stone with unambiguous meanings lead to the development of the ethical principles that underlie all psychological research today, but to what extent are these guidelines dealing with the major ethical issues involved in social influence research today? The work of Milgram in particular raised many ethical issues, testing these against the new guidelines set by the British Psychological Society in 2000 will show some kind of indication to the effectiveness of them for future social influence research. One of the many concerns with Milgrams experiment was the inability of participants to give fully informed consent. Without this, it...

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