ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the range of methods that psychologists use to gather data and gives some examples of ethical issues that each method poses. Much of the research that we have discussed has taken place in a laboratory setting and been experimental. In fact many people equate laboratory experiments with unethical practices. A scrubbed laboratory seems a place of potential torture, where the subject/participant is at the mercy of the experimenter. However, other kinds of research are also prone to ethical problems.
