Stanford Prison Experiment

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Social Psychology is dependent upon humans for experiments, but many things go wrong with this. Human subjects are essential to advance the research of controlled studies, after many uncontrolled research there are now federal agencies to regulate the experiment. Over the years there has been an alarming problem with validity of psychological research and now is conducted differently with different populations and places. To name a few human subject experiments examples are the Stanford Prison Experiment that was a psychological study of human responses to captivity and as behavioral effects on both authorities and inmates in prison. Additionally, The Tuskegee Syphilis study was another one it was a study of untreated syphilis in negro males that were denied treatment for syphilis. …show more content…
Deception is largely based on the assumption that if subjects knew the true nature of the experiment then they would not act naturally and hence contaminate the results. (Lesko 2012). According to California State University deception happens, while exploring your area of interest may require misleading or not completely informing your subjects about the true nature of your research.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says (in 1932, the Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute, began a study to record the natural history of syphilis in hopes of justifying treatment programs for blacks. It was called the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male)." With the Tuskegee experiment it was misleading of human research subjects. Federal regulations prohibit the use of deceptive techniques that place subjects at greater than minimal risk. With the Tuskegee experiment it was misleading of human research