Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences
Multimedia Resources
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Video Links
Milgram Obedience Study
Description: This YouTube video highlights the Milgram Obedience Experiment and its implications to contemporary psychology and ethics issues raised within research and in greater society.
Belmont Report Educational Video
Description: This YouTube video describes the history of research in the United States and how the Belmont Report evolved to protect human subjects.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
Description: This video provides an overview of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
Audio Links
Animal Research: A Discussion of Ethics
Description: This NPR audio discusses and explores issues of animal rights and research ethics.
Web Resources
Human Research Protections
Description: American Psychological Association’s (APA) Human Research Protections website that provides regulations, legislature, and training resources for conducting ethically sound research involving human participants.
Protecting Human Research Participants
Description: The National Institutes of Health free certification course website (referenced by Privitera) provides ethical research education and training, specifically for federally funded human subjects investigators.
APA Ethics Code
Description: The APA website has full text and enumerated Standards of the APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.