Ethical Dilemma Paper

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The ethical dilemma with a Psychology instructor asking his students for a questionnaire to publish a journal article is whether they have permission to publish the information. The instructor should be cognizant of situations where they have confidential ideas or research, such as reviewing the questions or research, or hearing new ideas during informal conversation. While it's unlikely reviewers can purge all the information in an interesting manuscript from their thinking, it's still unethical to take those ideas without giving credit to the originators in this case the students. The instructor needs proper permission to use those ideas in a journal article they are trying to publish because not everyone will agree to release their information. …show more content…

And because research participants have the freedom to choose how much information about themselves they will reveal and under what circumstances, the person conducting the study should be careful when recruiting participants. Therefore, in my opinion it is inappropriate to obtain information of members of a group to incriminate them after their participation in research. The primary concern of the researcher should be the safety of the research participants. Protecting subject safety requires the researcher to use all available information to identify potential risks to the subject matter, to establish means of minimizing those risks, and to continually monitor the ongoing research for adverse events. The researcher must be prepared to stop the study if serious unanticipated risks are obvious like falsifying information by the participants. Once you have found unethical information I believe it should be removed immediately to not taint the bulk of the research in other words casualty

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