History of Ethics in Psychology

Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Period: 1932 to 1972

Over 600 black sharecroppers were studied by the U.S public health service to document diseases in black and racial differences in the clinical manifestations of syphilis. The men weren’t told they had syphilis nor given counsel on how not to spread the disease.

Nazi Concentration Camp experiment

Period: 1935 to 1945

Conducted horrendous experiments on homosexuals Jews and negros. Sleep deprivation, starvation, unnecessary surgeries without anesthesia, and submission to physical, emotional, and sociological torture.

Stanley Milgram Obedience circa

1964

Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram imploded electrical shocks to human participants the world was outraged and demanded detailed explanations.