Ethical Issues in Behavioral Research: A Survey

During the past two decades there has been a growing level of concern worldwide regarding the importance of ethical issues within the conduct of behavioral sciences research. This book seeks to reflect that concern, attempting throughout to strike a balance between the rights and welfare of the participants of research and the rights of the researchers to pursue a fuller understanding of behavior. Discussion within the text ranges from problems encountered in the conduct of human subject and animal subject research in both laboratory and field settings to the issues surrounding integrity in the analysis of data and professional ethical principles.

Each chapter includes illustrative case studies of ethically controversial investigations which, combined with a full bibliography, encourage the reader to more in–depth study.

List of Boxes.

List of Tables.

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction: Why Research Ethics?.

2. Ethical Principles in Behavioral Research: Professional and Governmental Guidelines.

3. Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Human Subject Research I: Laboratory Research.

4. Methodological Issues in the Use of Deception.

5. Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Human Subject Research II: Field Research.

6. Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Human Subject Research III: Applied Research.

7. Ethical Issues in the Recruitment and Selection of Research Subjects.

8. Ethical Issues in Research With Animals.

9. Ethical Review and the Communication of Results.

Appendices.

References.

Indices.

Allan J. Kimmel is Professor of Marketing at ESCP–EAP, European School of Management, France.

"Kimmel provides a helpful overview of the historical and social contexts in which attention to human service ethics has long preceded attention to research ethics ... Appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and professionals in social science programs." Choice

"It is scholarly, fascinating, and very much up–to–date. I will certainly be using it in my teaching and in my research." Professor Robert Rosenthal, Harvard University

"Faced with a daunting array of human subjects regulations and the expanding role of review boards, new investigators will find Kimmel′s book an invaluable guide. Interspersed with a broad range of case studies, this book is both instructive and highly informative – a thoroughly captivating introduction to the ethics of research with human subjects in the 1990s and beyond." Professor Ralph L. Rosnow, Temple University