Related Web Resources

Psychology as a Science

National Institutes of Health: www.nih.gov The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Composed of 27 institutes and centres, scientists in the NIH conduct or support medical research to investigate various diseases and their causes, treatment, and prevention. This website contains links to each of the institutes and centres, and news about research conducted within the organization.

Canadian Psychological Association Code of Ethics: www.cpa.ca/aboutcpa/committees/ethics/codeofethics This webpage links to the Canadian Psychological Association’s Code of Ethics. The CPA states: “This social contract is based on attitudes of mutual respect and trust, with society granting support for the autonomy of a discipline in exchange for a commitment by the discipline to do everything it can to assure that its members act ethically in conducting the affairs of the discipline within society.”

HyperStat Online: http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat This website contains an online statistics textbook written by Dr. David M. Lane of Rice University. Numerous other statistical and experimental research design resources are also linked to this website.

Psychological Research on the Net: http://psych.hanover.edu/research/exponnet.html Are you interested in participating in a psychological research study? This site, hosted by Hanover College Psychology Department and sponsored by the American Psychological Society (APS), lists ongoing studies in numerous topical areas.

PubMed: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed The U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health sponsor this searchable database of journal articles at no charge. This portal contains both medical and psychology-related research published in medical journals.

The Troubling Legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: www.hsl.virginia.edu/historical/medical_history/bad_blood The University of Virginia sponsors this historical website detailing the Tuskegee Syphilis Study that ran from 1932–1972 under the auspices of the United States Public Health Service. About 400 poor African-American men were told they were being treated for “bad blood” but were, in fact, denied treatment. The study raises many ethical concerns about the treatment of humans in research and the ethical obligations of researchers.