ABSTRACT
Ethical guidelines are codes of conduct that have been developed to help psychological researchers ensure that neither the participants in the research nor the credibility of psychology are damaged during the course of research. There are four aspects of the scientific research process that raise ethical implications in socially sensitive research according to J. E. Sieber and B. Stanley: the research question, the methodology used, the institutional context, and interpretation and application of findings. Ethical issues/ethical guidelines for human participants and ethical implications for socially sensitive research/suggestions for doing socially sensitive research are quite different. The biological approach has a number of assumptions about human behaviour, but one of the most influential is the view that behavioural characteristics are governed by genes in the same way that physical characteristics are. The basic units of heredity are called genes, which function in pairs.
