Ethical Issues in Psychology

A Critical Introduction
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-77870-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Ethical Issues in Psychology: A Critical Introduction offers readers a clear review of current ethical practices and ideas in psychology and goes on to challenge some of the agreed wisdom on ethics.

Ethical issues within psychology are not easy to resolve and debates continue as we encounter new dilemmas. This book introduces ethics and their importance, and uses examples from psychological research to consider key ethical issues; ethical principles and guidelines for psychologists, including BPS guidelines; ethics in practice in psychology; ethical problems within psychology, such as racism; and methods for ethical research, including socially sensitive research, internet-mediated research, and the use of animals in psychological research. Fully up-to-date, this book considers recent challenges for researchers and teachers including privacy and consent dilemmas in the use of social media for psychological research, the rise of the open science movement and an awareness of research misconduct and fraud, and the narrow focus of psychological research that positions itself as objective and scientific while sitting in a European, and therefore predominantly white, context.

Offering a comprehensive examination of ethical issues in psychology across a wide range of fields, the book encourages readers to consider the ethics-related questions they should be asking when undertaking their own research. The book is essential reading for undergraduate and pre-undergraduate students of psychology and related subjects.

Zielgruppe

AS/A2 and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flanagan, Cara

Banyard, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Right and wrong  2. Ethical issues and how to deal with them  3. Ethical principles and guidelines  4. Psychology in practice  5. Psychology’s missing ethics  6. Ethics and methods  Glossary  References  Index

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Banyard is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He was a chief examiner of A level psychology for many years and has written more than 20 texts.

Cara Flanagan is a freelance academic author and lecturer. She has published a wide range of books covering general topics in psychology as well as research methods and ethics. She is senior editor of Psychology Review, a magazine for A level students.