Home of real teaching & learning
  • Full support for teachers
  • Focus on critical thinking
  • Engaging classroom activities
  • Integrated student eBook
  • Assessed tasks / qBank
  • Practice exam questions

The InThinking Guarantee: Our sites are written by expert practitioners and not by AI

See our AI policy

Disclaimer: InThinking subject sites are neither endorsed by nor connected with the International Baccalaureate Organisation.

Don't miss out, find out!

Judging ethics of research proposals

When discussing ethics, there are several rather dodgy experiments in psychology. A good example of this is a study carried out by Middlemist, Knowles & Matter (1976) in which they covertly observed men urinating in a public toilet. They wanted to test to see "how the speed and flow of men's urination in a public bathroom were affected by invasions of personal space." One could argue that this experiment is a bit...


Tags: ethics, experiments, research

Help