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After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Address potential ethical issues during the design phase of the research project.
- Explain how your research project minimizes risk and enhances benefits to participants.
- Find alternative research procedures to avoid physical or psychological harm to participants.
- Design a research project that demonstrates beneficence, respect for persons, and justice.
- Follow procedures and guidelines required by your university's institutional review board.
- Determine the content for and write an informed consent form that is understandable for participants.
- Use deception and confederates only if other alternatives are unavailable, and only if these practices do not cause undue harm for participants.
- Devise data collection procedures that maintain participants' confidentiality and anonymity.
- Understand any risks associated with videotaping and audiotaping participants' interactions.
- Provide an adequate debriefing for research participants.
- Ensure the accuracy of data and findings.
- Write a research report that does not plagiarize the work of others.
- Write a description of research participants in such a way as to conceal their identities.
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