Teaching About Systemic Ethical Misconduct Increases Awareness of Ethical Principles: A Replication and Extension of Grose-Fifer’s (2017) Tuskegee Role-Play Activity

• Published in: Teaching of psychology Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 199 - 205
• Main Authors: Rose, Maya C., Brodsky, Jessica E., Che, Elizabeth S., Brooks, Patricia J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2022; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Active Learning; Activism; Biomedicine; Children with disabilities; Civil Rights; Course Content; Diseases; Ethics; Homework; Human subjects; Introductory Courses; Knowledge Level; Laws; Medical Research; Moral Values; Outcomes of Education; Perspective Taking; Pretests Posttests; Public Health; Resistance (Psychology); Role Playing; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Students; Students with Disabilities; Syphilis; Teaching Methods; Undergraduate Students; active learning; instructional methods; Willowbrook State School; ethics; Tuskegee syphilis study; role-play

Background: Introductory Psychology students rarely learn about unethical biomedical research outside the Tuskegee syphilis study, but these practices were widespread in U.S. public health research (e.g., at the Willowbrook State School researchers infected children with disabilities with hepatitis)...