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Research Design and Methods: A Process Approach, Fifth Edition Book Cover
Research Design and Methods: A Process Approach, 5/e
Kenneth S. Bordens, Indiana University/Purdue University - Fort Wayne
Bruce Barrington Abbott, Indiana University/Purdue University


Participants

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 :

http://waisgate.hhs.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate

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.

On Being a Scientist: http://xerxes.nas.edu/nap/online/obas/

A 1995 National Academy of Science (United States) paper on responsible conduct in research and scholarship: http://www.cc.emory.edu/OSP/guidelines-conduct.html