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Investigators may find it beneficial to review some of the resources listed below before submitting a human subjects request.

Regulations & General Information

Federal Regulations




General scientific and medical ethics



The Nuremberg Code




Shared Responsibilities


Alliance for Human Research Protections (AHRP) compilation of articles


Link to the East Valley Tribune Newspaper - search archives for story entitled "Havasupai Tribe files $50M lawsuit against ASU" published on March 17, 2004

1950s Study on Wichita Jury Deliberations
Barnes, J.A. The Ethics of Inquiry in Social Science. Delhi: Oxford University Press: 1977

Privacy and Confidentiality

Tearoom Trade Study
Humphreys, Laud: Tearoom trade; impersonal sex in public places, Chicago, Aldine Pub. Co., 1970

Tearoom Trade Study (p 66) plus general history of ethical concerns for research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
National Academy of Sciences Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences and Education (BCSSE), "Protecting Participants and Facilitating Social and Behavioral Sciences Research", 2003

"Undercover Freshman" study
Nathan, Rebekah: My freshman year: what a professor learned by becoming a student. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2005

Privacy and confidentiality issues in the social and behavioral sciences
(available online: )
Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences and Education (BCSSE). Protecting Participants and Facilitating Social and Behavioral Sciences Research. National Academies Press, 2003.

Deception in Research




"When is Deception Ethically Justified in Research?"

Baumrind, D. (1985). Research using intentional deception: Ethical issues revisited. American Psychologist. 40(2), 165-174
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Risks and Benefits Module

Stanford prison experiments

Federal protections for vulnerable groups: