Thanks to all who replied, my student's and I found this very interesting.
First of all there was some confusion about what I meant by "ethics
committees." I meant IRBs, or any similar group that influences research
decisions (there are some institutions that do not have IRBs, but I thought
they might have something similar). I received one answer about an
"honesty committee" with student representation, but I don't think that was
what I was looking for. So, the numbers, as best I can share are:
7 institutions no students
5 instututions with at least one student (usually a grad student, although
I'm not sure whether it has to be a grad student, or it just turns out that
way) (One of these emailers thought that all California State schools had
a student, but I only counted this once)
People from schools that have students on committees expressed positive
reviews, but at least one person from a school without students was skeptical.
My class thought it was a good idea to include an undergraduate student at
least when discussing research that uses the intro to psych subject pool.
One person asked about the references for the ethical debate that prompted
this inquiry, so here they are:
Savin, H. B. (1973). Professors and psychological researchers:
Conflicting values in conflicting roles. Cognition. 2(1), 147-149.
Zimbardo, P. G. (1973). On the ethics of intervention in human
psychological research: With special reference to the Stanford prison
experiment. Cognition. 2(2), 243-256.
Savin, H. B. (1973). Ethics for gods and men. Cognition. 2(2), 257.
Thanks again,
Don
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Donald J. Rudawsky
University of Cincinnati
Dept. of Psychology
PO Box 210376
Cincinnati, OH 45210-0376
513.558.3146
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