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This chapter deals with selected ethical issues that arise in research on the effects of crowding, with particular emphasis on broad issues pertaining to informed consent. These include the use of “participant advocates,” and debriefing procedures tailored to the participants’ needs, assessing the effectiveness of debriefing procedures in removing imposed discomfort, assessing the degree of imposed harm on participants, accommodating the circumstances and needs of the community by addressing problems involved in conducting research in the community and determining community attitudes toward the investigated variables, and minimizing feelings of powerlessness on the part of subjects.
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Loo, C.M. (1982). Vulnerable Populations: Case Studies in Crowding Research. In: Sieber, J.E. (eds) The Ethics of Social Research. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5719-6_5
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