Weblinks

A broad range of weblinks for every chapter to further your reading and act as sources.

The Society for Research in Child Development’s statement of principles for ethical standards in research. This will complement the section on ethics in this chapter:
http://www.srcd.org/about-us/ethical-standards-research

The website of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies provides information about the 1958 birth cohort study and the Millennium Cohort study currently being conducted in the United Kingdom:
http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/page.aspx?&sitesectionid=851&sitesectiontitle=Welcome+to+the+Millennium+Cohort+Study

One of the reflection points in this chapter asks you to look at Jane Elliot’s (1970) ‘Brown eyes, blue eyes experiment’ and consider the ethical issues involved. Here is a video of that study:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/class-divided/

The ethics reflection point also asks you to look at Rosenthal and Jacobsen’s (1968) study ‘Pygmalion in the Classroom’. The following is a full-text link to this article:
https://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/psyifp/aeechterhoff/sommersemester2012/schluesselstudiendersozialpsychologiea/rosenthal_jacobson_pygmalionclassroom_urbrev1968.pdf