Ethics in Research With Human Participants

The American Psychological Association offers this book to help researchers understand ethical conflicts. The examples and analyses help researchers in identifying conflicts of interest and solving ethical dilemmas, planning research, recruiting participants, training researchers, managing matters of informed consent and confidentiality, dealing with intellectual property issues, working with special populations, and updating protocols for institutional review boards.

Bruce D. Sales, PhD, JD, is the Virginia L. Roberts Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University, Bloomington. Some of his APA books include The Science of Attorney Advocacy (with J. Findley, 2012), Courtroom Modifications for Child Witnesses (with S. Hall, 2008), Sex Offending: Causal Theories to Inform Research, Prevention, and Treatment (with J. Stinson & J. Becker, 2008), Scientific Jury Selection (with J. Lieberman, 2007), Criminal Profiling: Developing an Effective Science and Practice (with S. Hicks, 2006; Italian translation, 2009), and Experts in Court (with D. Shuman, 2005; Korean translation, 2009). Dr. Sales, the first editor of the journals Law and Human Behavior and Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, is a fellow of APA and the Association for Psychological Science, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and twice served as president of the American Psychology–Law Society. He received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology and Law from the American Psychology–Law Society, the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Public Service from APA, a Presidential Citation for Distinguished Service to APA, and an honorary doctor of science degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York for being the "founding father of forensic psychology as an academic discipline."

Susan Folkman, PhD, is the Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and the Osher Foundation Distinguished Professor of Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Since 1990, she has also been Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and from 1994 until 2001 she was Co-Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.