Obtaining informed consent from study participants and results of field studies. Methodological problems caused by the literal treatment of codes of ethics

• Authors: Tomasz Grzyb

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the issue of the necessity of obtaining informed consent from an individual who is to be a participant in an experiment. Codes of ethics concerning the behaviour of a psychologist fundamentally do not permit conducting experiments without informing their participants in advance that they will be conducted. Meanwhile, the act of obtaining prior consent (and thus of informing the study participant that they will be taking part in an experiment) can have a significant impact on results. The article describes an experiment in the field of social influence psychology during which one group was asked for their informed consent to participate in a study, while the second was simply presented with the main request (to sign a letter to the mayor about reducing the number of parking spaces for the disabled). The results demonstrate the strong influence of awareness that a study is being conducted on the decisions taken in the course of the experiment.

Keywords

EN

social influence; informed consent; ethics in experimentation

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 288-292

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Tomasz Grzyb

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2128445