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The current ethical codes used by the American Psychological Association and American Psychiatric Association can be found on their sites:
You may be asked to find and write about a study that violated the American Psychological Association's ethical standards. Here are some tips for tackling this assignment:
1. Identify an unethical study that interests you. We suggest selecting one from your textbook or class lectures, or from the following lists:
2. Find the original study report. If you haven't been able to find the full-text of the study you're interested in, try searching for the title in SmartSearch or Google Scholar. We have a short tutorial that'll show you how to track down documents here.
3. Find articles about that study. Try searching in EBSCO or another Library database (there's a list of helpful ones here). Use names or keywords specific to the experiment to try to find peer-reviewed articles. For example, to find articles about the Little Albert experiment in 1920, a simple search for (“Little Albert” AND experiment) will bring up some relevant results.
Contact us if you still need help!
These keywords may be helpful if you're searching for papers about ethics.
| For: | Use: | Also Consider: |
| APA |
American Psychological Association |
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| Code of Ethics |
(CV) |
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| Duty to Warn |
(CV) |
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| Ethics |
(CV) |
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| Experiment |
(CV) |
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| Experimental Environment |
(CV) |
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| Informed Consent |
(CV) |
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| Professional Ethics |
(CV) |
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| Research |
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| Research Methods |
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| Research Subjects |
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Click on the blue Single Sign On button and use your usual SSO credentials (just like you would to log into SOAR).
You can find more help for logging in here.
Click here for some quick tips on finding articles that use empirical methodologies.
Click here to view a quick tutorial that'll show you how to track down the .pdf for an article.
The Library's interlibrary loan service allows you to request articles from other lenders. This service is free. Once a partner institution has given us a .pdf copy, we'll forward it to your email address.
You can learn more about the interlibrary loan service, and find the request form, here.
You can use Ulrichsweb or Serials Directory to verify whether a journal is peer-reviewed. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
Remember: Most of the Library's databases will allow you to limit your search results to articles from peer-reviewed journals!
