{"id":758,"date":"2014-03-27T15:32:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T22:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=758"},"modified":"2014-03-27T15:33:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T22:33:33","slug":"the-ethics-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/the-ethics-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ethics Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ethics committee at Utrecht University governs what can and can&#8217;t be done in scientific experiments, especially in psychology and social neuroscience. Experiments with any threat of inflicting psychological or physical harm on a participant are forbidden.\u00a0(e.g.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milgram_experiment\">Milgram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanford_prison_experiment\">Stanford Prison Experiment<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>A shame really, because those experiments are often the most cited, and revealing.<\/p>\n<p>[In other words, the glory days of psychology are long gone.]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-761\" style=\"width: 754px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1163961-sigmund-freud.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-761   \" alt=\"3274654-sigmund-freud-portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1163961-sigmund-freud.jpg?resize=754%2C754\" width=\"754\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1163961-sigmund-freud.jpg?w=1539&amp;ssl=1 1539w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1163961-sigmund-freud.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1163961-sigmund-freud.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1163961-sigmund-freud.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freud meant no harm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Having an ethics committee sounds good (and morally sound) in principle, but now it just leads to a whole bunch of bureaucracy and paperwork. Graduate students and professors complain about how it takes years just to get approval for some experiments.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do we have to worry about the ethics committee?&#8221; asked Marissa. We are in a study group together and we need to come up with a project proposal within two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not here.&#8221; said the professor. &#8220;They&#8217;re quite good.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ethics committee at Utrecht University governs what can and can&#8217;t be done in scientific experiments, especially in psychology and social neuroscience. Experiments with any threat of inflicting psychological or physical harm on a participant are forbidden.\u00a0(e.g.\u00a0Milgram,\u00a0Stanford Prison Experiment) A shame really, because those experiments are often the most cited, and revealing. [In other words, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/the-ethics-committee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ethics Committee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-ce","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}