Lisaa
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Well, he wasn't the meanest of them all. My boyfriend (A Psychology major) was telling me about one psychologist that took a kid out of an orphanage, made him absolutely terrified of small white animals through conditioning, and then put him back in the orphanage when he was done, where he died 2 years later of a disease
Yup Little Albert. Some psychological experiments conducted early on were extremely unethical. However, without them there would be much we wouldn't know to this day. It's also kinda the reason the ethical committee thing was brought in for psychology experiments/studies. Also, the Stanford Prison Experiment was gruelling... As was Milgram's study of obedience.
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