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According to Cooper and Schindler (2008), ethics can be defined as norms or standards that guide moral choices about our behavior and our relationships. Do blind or double-blind research studies violate basic ethical principles? Why, or why not?

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Blind or double-blind research studies do not violate basic ethical principles, due to the fact that these research studies only withhold certain information, in order to ensure that the experiments did not become invalid due to bias, etc. These types of experiments do not withhold any information that would be harmful to the participants, nor does it withhold any ...

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