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- - - - the considerations outlined by Sieber and Stanley provide a mechanism to safeguard individuals who are indirectly affected by psychological research, because of the problems associated with socially sensitive research, it is not sufficient to simply safeguard the interests of the ppts taking part in the research
      - however, it is important to recognise that not all socially sensitive research is controversial and some is desirable and beneficial to society. For example, research examining eye-witness testimony, especially the use of child-witnesses (e.g. Flin et al.) has found that young children can be reliable witnesses if they are questioned in a timely and appropriate manner. In this area, socially sensitive research has resulted in a good working relationship between psychologists and the legal profession to help improve the accuracy and validity of children eye-witnesses.
    - - there is also the potential for an indirect impact of the ppts family and co-workers, and therefore it is important for researchers to consider the wider implications of their research, current ethical guidelines docused on the direct effects of the researcher practice on ppts, but may not address the other ways that research might inflict harm on people in society
      - socially sensitive research can lead to issues of discrimination, and therefore some psychologists would argue against conducting this form of research,
        for example between 1907 and 1963, over 64,000 individuals were forcibly sterilised under eugenic legislation in the US, and in 1972, the US senate committee revealed that at least 2,00 involuntary steralisations had been performed on poor black women without their consent or knowledge, this could be 'justified' by (flawed) research (Robert Yerkes) which argued that black Americans had lower IQ scores in comparison to white Americans
- - - - parents pass on genes and also provide an environment, both of which influence the childs development, for example highly intelligence parents are likely to pass on genes for intellgence to their children
    - - hertiable traits influence the reaction of others and hence the environment provided by others, for example a shy child (partly genetically influenced) may be less fun to other children, making other children less liekly to want to spend time with him or her
    - - a childs heritable traits influence his or her choice of environment, for example an aggressive child may choose to watch violent films and engage in contact sports