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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 2, 164-168 (1979)
DOI: 10.1177/014616727900500207
© 1979 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Perceptions of Ethicality of Psychological Research: Effects of Experimenter Status, Experiment Outcome, and Authoritarianism

Elizabeth Decker Tanke

Department of Psychology, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California 95053

This study investigated the effect of experimenter status and experiment outcome on the perceived ethicality of a psychological experiment. High authoritarians, but not low authoritarians, judged the experiment as more ethical when the experimenter was of high status and when the experimental hypothesis was confirmed. Ratings of ethicality were significantly correlated with perceived harm to participants for both groups; ratings of ethicality were significantly correlated with perceived benefits of research to science and society only in the case of high authoritarians.


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