The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Psychological Ethics

If given a free hand, research workers tend to have a cavalier approach to ethical considerations. They seem to assume that they are, by definition, “good,” all their aims are worthy, and that therefore everything they do is good. I have not seen any historical evidence to confirm that King James I had two babies brought up on an island in the Firth of Forth by deaf and dumb nurses, to see if they grew up speaking Hebrew – the tale is, indeed, told of various other monarchs through the ages, but I have come across several psychology researchers who...