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Privacy and Research with Human Beings
Author(s) -
Kelman Herbert C.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1977.tb01889.x
Subject(s) - internet privacy , boundary (topology) , information privacy , control (management) , presentation (obstetrics) , private information retrieval , computer security , space (punctuation) , psychology , social psychology , computer science , medicine , mathematical analysis , mathematics , artificial intelligence , radiology , operating system
Social and psychological research generates three kinds of concerns about invasion of participants' privacy: that public exposure of their views and actions may have damaging consequences for them; that the procedures used to elicit information may deprive them of control over their self‐presentation; and that the research may probe into areas that constitute their private space, overstepping the customary boundary between self and environment. The paper explores the psychological significance of preserving privacy in each of these three senses, the ways in which different kinds of research may threaten privacy in each case, the requirements for minimizing or counteracting such threats, and the conditions under which research representing a certain degree of invasion of privacy can nevertheless be justified.