Bystander Effect Experiment Unethical

What makes an experiment unethical? An unethical experiment is an experiment that cause harm or that doesn’t benefit anyone. Most experiment that are unethical are not consider to be until years after the experiment is completed. The Belmont Report is what today researchers use in order to tell if an experiment is ethical or not. The Belmont report make sure an experiment follows three principles Respect for Persons, Beneficence, and justice. “before the creation of The Belmont Report, scientists had a bit of a free-for-all when it came to human experiments, and conducted projects that today would be deemed extremely unethical” (Dovey). With any experiment conducted there will be pro’s and con’s that come with them. With the article “5 Unethical …show more content…
An example of an experiment that provide good research is the Bystander Effect experiment. This experiment place college student in a room where they talked to a recording one of the recording told the student that he is prone to have seizures. Half way through the experiment the recording with the seizures would stop play, they tested to see how long it took for the student to seek help. With “Bystander Effect experiment we now better understand how humans react to a crisis when in a group, an important tool for law enforcement” (Dovey) providing more good than harm with this experiment. Another example is the Milgram experiment it “concluded that people will obey authority figures even in morally questionable circumstances and the experiment has led to many more studies on psychology of authority” (Green). Not only did the Milgram experiment an unethical experiment pave the way for future study on this, but it proved that people will do almost anything if an authority figure tells them to. Lastly the Stanford prison experiment even though the experiment was called off way before its two weeks where up it still provides a lot of good research. It conducted that “people will truly become any role they are given during the experiment the people task with the guard role became aggressive and abused their power” (Green). This shows why people given role like community leader or …show more content…
In the Bystander Effect experiment it gets called unethical because it was believed that participants had long lasting psychiatric problems for thinking that they harmed someone. Also at the begging of the experiment the researcher could not tell the participants their real goals since it might mess up the results of the experiment. the Belmont report would claim that this experiment will have a negative impact on the test participants. The Milgram experiment also lead their subject to believe that they were harming someone. To put the idea that the participants almost killed someone and never to fix the participants at the end of the experiment makes this experiment unethical. This may not be big traumatic event, but this experiment will still be carry with them leading them to have psychiatric problems later down the road. When it comes to the Stanford prison “experiment it was so unethical that it had to be stop on day six of their two-week experiment, and one of the participants had to leave earlier then that” (Green). the researcher did not care for his participants well-being by “allowed the guards to subject the prisoners to serious abuse and may cause them real permanent harm” (Green). these negative effects of these experiment may question the if the experiment is worth the information it gives