Hello! Welcome back to Bioethics Dialogues!! This is part 1 of the second episode of this podcast and your co-hosts, Sanya and Nirali, are discussing psychological experiments! We are really looking into experimentation, while mentioning some example studies. We hope you take away a lot from this and we encourage you to join us to learn about psychological experimentation and form your own opinions on it!

Learn more with similar studies or studies we talked about:

Tuskegee Syphilis Study: https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study; https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm#:~:text=The%20study%20initially%20involved%20600,syphilis%2C%20anemia%2C%20and%20fatigue. 

Stanford Prison Experiment: https://research.oregonstate.edu/irb/research-involving-deception 

Electroshock Therapy (Dr. Lauretta Bender): https://theclio.com/entry/88387 

Facebook Manipulation Study: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-689003-users-emotions-for-science/?sh=4d56b754197c
Festinger & Carlsmith's Study: https://explorable.com/cognitive-dissonance 

Sources: 

⁠https://research-compliance.umich.edu/human-subjects/irb-health-sciences-and-behavioral-sciences-hsbs/irb-review-process#:~:text=IRB%20staff%20assign%20submissions%20to,a%20determination%20for%20the%20submission⁠. 

⁠https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/posts/2023/08/review-highlights-unethical-moments-in-medical-research-history#:~:text=Reporters%20combed%20through%20decades%20of,would%20have%20been%20deemed%20unethical⁠. 

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