Blog #17: Answer 3

Essential Question: 

What is the best way to conduct social psychology research to study different behavioral patterns?

Answer 3:

The best way to conduct social psychology research to study human behavior is by conducting ethical studies.

Details to support my answer 3:

• Making sure a study is ethical is important in the long-run for all participants.
• It ensures safety of those involved.
• Creating an ethical experiment while also trying to test certain things is very difficult while also trying to make it truly test a theory.
• Ensuring that all experiments are ethical is difficult to do and sometimes inhibits us from testing certain theories entirely.

The research:

McLeod, S. A. (2007). Psychology Research Ethics. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/Ethics.html

Concluding statement:

Social psychologists share the common goal that is their research is gathered in efforts to help people. By harming anyone in the process of gathering that information is strictly unprofessional and because it is unethical it should not be allowed.