Consent You Are Being Invited

Consent

You are being invited to participate in a research study about authority and aggression. This research project is being conducted by Phillip G. Zimbardo of Stanford University Psychology Department as part of a 2-week investigation in order to test the results of what happens when you put regular people in places of authority. The nature of the research project has been fully explained to you and further questions may be asked and answered if you wish. Information provided includes the fact that you will be acting as a paid volunteer who will be randomly assigned the position of either "guard" or "prisoner."

Whilst you will be paid for participating in the study, costs of the study will involve a loss of privacy, and release from study will be permitted only for reasons of health acceptable to the medical advisors of the research study or for other reasons acceptable to Dr. Phillip Zimbardo. There are, otherwise, no costs for participating in the study, although full compliance to rules issued by staff members of the project or form other participants in the research project is expected

The information colleted may not benefit you directly, but what we learn from this study should provide general benefits to scientists who work with the criminal justice situation, and to better understanding and dealing with global instances of aggression and violence.

The Stanford University Institutional Review Board has reviewed my request to conduct this project.

If you have any questions or concerns about the study, you may contact me at Date: ____ name of volunteer:

Exc. B

The truth about psychiatric drugs is similar to another study that revolved around investigating the efficacy of less-than-lethal stun guns.

The Alliance of Human Research Protection (AHRP) published an article regarding three recent studies that confirmed that popular psychotropic drugs that pose serious risks of harm actually offer no therapeutic benefit.

People have been misled about the safety and benefits of certain psychiatric drugs, particularly SSRO antidepressants, and the more recent neuroleptics, called 'atypical antidepressants'.

Exposing these drugs as being not only hazardous but also as posing irremediable harm, the AHRP pointed out that results include the following:

Debilitating, chronic illness and even life-threatening risks: antidepressants increase the suicide risk and trigger serotonin syndrome, which is potentially fatal. Antipsychotics undermine normal metabolic, cardiovascular, hormonal function, resulting in cardiac arrest, obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes.

A similar review may be preformed on the efficacy of less-than-lethal stun guns. In 2009, Police of Chief of San Francisco ordered an investigation into the lethal effects of stun guns used by the San Francisco police force. The study would involve a review of at least 20 officer-involved shootings since 2005 and identify whether stun guns were used in these shootings. Although the San Francisco police do not carry stun guns they do carry Tasers, and Tasers work on the same mechanism as those of stun guns shooting darts that deliver electric shots to stun suspects. It is said that 334 individuals died from these electric shots during the years 20001 to 2008. If that is so, the AHRP can publish the results on its page pointing out that the effects of so-called not-so-lethal stun guns are actually quite lethal indeed.

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The Belmont Report

The basic ethical principles to be considered in all human research studies involves:

1. Respect for persons -- This involves two categories: (a) that all people regardless of ethnic, gender, mental, physical and any sort of distinction should be treated with dignity and respect, and accorded their autonomous right to do as they wish. (b) That individuals who are more vulnerable should be accorded special attention and protection

2. Beneficence -- this extends to two general principles that includes (a) not only not harming the participant but (b) also affirming that their general well- being is met and maximizing possible benefits of the study whilst minimizing potential harm.

3. Justice -- These regulates the way that participants should be treated in the study maintaining that (a) each participant should be equally involved in the study (b) each should be treated according to his particular need (c) and according to her particular effort (d) and that burdens and benefits of the study should also be divided according to societal contribution and (e) merit.