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Orne (1962)

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Demand characteristics are “cues that convey the experimental hypothesis to the (participant)” and determine behaviour.

2
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Rosenthal (1966)

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Male researchers were more pleasant and friendly with female participants than they were with male participants.

3
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Epstein and Lasagna (1969)

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Only 1/3 of participants really understood what they were signing up for.

4
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Baumrind (1985)

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Deception is morally wrong because:

  1. Right to informed consent
  2. Obligation of researchers to protect welfare
  3. Responsibility of researchers to be trustworthy
5
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Baumrind (1959)

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Cost-benefit analysis is useless as it exchanges one set of ethical issues for another.

6
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Mackintosh (1995)

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Cyril Burt (1955, 1966) was dishonest in his research.

7
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John et al. (2012)

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70% of psychologists said they’d cut corners and 1% admitted to fabricating their data and findings.

8
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Smith (1999)

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“Peer review is slow, expensive… highly subjective… easily abused, poor at detecting gross defects and almost useless at detecting fraud.”

9
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Ritchie et al. (2012)

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Replications of studies (to check the original study) aren’t published.

10
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Horton (2000)

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Peer review preserves the status quo even if new evidence is found.

11
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Brooks (2010)

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Members of Parliament still used debunked research.

12
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Tversky and Kahneman (1986)

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Framing effect: how you frame a question affects how it is answered.

13
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Layard (2014)

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Kahneman’s work on irrational thinking transformed business.

14
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McCrone et al. (2008)

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Cost of mental health in England is around £22.5 billion
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Medication is much better economically.

15
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Popper (1934)

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Falsification principle

16
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Kuhn (1962)

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Paradigms are shared sets of assumptions about an area of study.

17
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Jones and Elcock (2001)

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There is a debate whether or not science is logical or a social construction.