Socially sensitive research has been applied in controversial ways by the eugenics movement. The findings of psychological research were used (many would say misused) in order to prevent particular people in society from 'breeding'. Supporters of these ideas included Adolf Hitler and certain American psychologists. Around 1915, several American states passed laws designed to prevent people of low intelligence from having children. Psychologists were in favour of having these laws passed and were involved with their enforcement. Most psychologists nowadays would be very reluctant to be associated with such harsh measures. A more popular view nowadays would be tghat simply because people are different from one another in society, this does not
