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In the minds of most A-level psychology students, the words ‘ethics’ and ‘Milgram’ appear to be inextricably linked.
The first set of APA (American Psychological Association) ethical guidelines pre-dated Milgram’s first studies of obedience by 3 years (APA ethics 1958, Milgram’s studies 1961). See also ‘Student activities: Psychologists, ethics and Guantanamo Bay’, PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW, Vol. 16, No. 3. However, such was the furore that followed the publication of the obedience studies that life in psychological research would never be the same again.
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