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Ethics requires thoughtful consideration of the range of possible options in a given situation. For a researcher, ethics also requires a professional commitment to put the safety and well-being of research participants and their communities first, and to strive always to maximize benefits and minimize harm in research activities. To be ethical or to make an ethical (good) decision is to consider the viewpoints of and potential outcomes for all affected stakeholders—including participants, researchers, and the general public as future beneficiaries of the research. Ethical researchers aim to make decisions that are good for everyone involved in the research but that are first and foremost good for participants.

Compliance refers to following the rules. As a researcher, it is necessary, but not sufficient, to know and follow the rules. When it comes to determining what is right and wrong in research, compliance with regulations and attention to ethics go hand in hand. As we will discuss throughout this book, there are rules for researcher behavior, and some of them even have the force of law. However, how to apply the rules may not be obvious in every unique situation. Therefore, researchers must have a good understanding of ethics—ethical principles, theories, and frameworks—to help them determine what to do when the federal research regulations and professional ethics codes are not specific enough.

More questions? See #1, #3, and #7.