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What is ethical drift? How can it affect an experiment and the experimenter? What can be done to ensure that ethical drift does not take place during an experiment?

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Ethical drift can happen to anyone who is involved in an experiment. After a while, the experimenter can adjust their thought processes and actions and adapt to the experiment, which can lead to possible ethical violations.

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Ethical drift does exist and can often happen without being cognitively aware that it is actually happening. A psychologist may start out with an experiment in an ethical manner, and as time goes on, the participants and the experimenter may change to fit the experiment. An example of this would be the Stanford Prison Experiment. Dr. Zimbardo began the experiment by testing the participants for possible mental disorders, briefed the participants on how they were not to cause pain or harm to the other participants, and ...

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