PROTECTION OF PARTICIPANTS- should not experience physical or psychological harm during the research and should leave the study in the same condition they arrived in. BECAUSE- It isn't always possible to anticipate when ppts will experience harm.
MILGRAM- showed signs of extreme distress e.g. shaking, biting lips, trembling. Three ppts even had panic attacks.
ZIMBARDO- ppts became so distressed that the experiment had to stopped after only 6 days (as opposed to 2 full weeks). One ppt even went on a hunger strike and four of the mock prisoners were released due to, '“extreme depression, disorganised thinking, uncontrollable crying and fits of rage.”
MILGRAM AND ZIMBARDO DEFENDED THIS- by stating that they could not have known how distressed the ppts would become. IN MILGRAM'S STUDY, it was found afterwards that over 80% of the ppts were glad to have taken part and 74% said to have learned something important from the experiment. However, was investigating the 'Germans are different' hypothesis worthy of harming the ppts?
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