When using human research participants or animal subjects in any psychological research project it is
important to follow accepted ethical guidelines. The American Psychological Association has laid out the
guidelines for psychologists and these are available on the APA website at:
http://www.apa.org/ethics/code.html. Some other sites that cover research participants, including sampling
and validity issues are : A good site for various issues of ethics in research and on being a scientist can be found at
http://psych.bangor.ac.uk/deptpsych/Ethics/Humanresearch.html. Another good site for general information on
ethics is onlineethics.org and can be found at http://onlineethics.org/reseth/index.html Research with Human Participants
Web Sites The Office of Human Research is a
good source of information on government research requirements for humans
participants and can be found at http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/ The APA has a nice overview of ethical requirements when using animals in research: http://www.apa.org/science/anguide.html An expanded version of the Nuremberg Code can
be found at http://onlineethics.org/reseth/nuremberg.html Research with Animal Subjects Web
Sites The International animal care and use
committee guidebook is a good source of information on animal research
ethics: ftp://ftp.grants.nih.gov/IACUC/GuideBook.pdf Another good source of information on various
issues relating to the ethics of using animals in research can be found at http://onlineethics.org/reseth/mod/animalres.html The United States Department of Agriculture's Animal
welfare information center is another good source of information about the
role of animals in research http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/labanimals/lab.htm Specific information on the Animal welfare
act can be found at the following web site http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/legislat/usdaleg1.htm
and questions and answers about the act can be found at http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/legislat/regsqa.htm Animal Rights Web Sites You can find links related to animal rights
issues at http://www.worldanimalnet.org/new.asp?co=&geo=&prov=&cat=AVI www.apisdatabase.org Information on criticisms of animal rights
activists and their positions can be found at: http://www.animalrights.net/ |