First do no harm: An exploration of researchers' ethics of conduct in Big Data behavioral studies.

ABSTRACT: Research ethics has traditionally been guided by well-established documents such as the Belmont Report and the Declaration of Helsinki. At the same time, the introduction of Big Data methods, that is having a great impact in behavioral research, is raising complex ethical issues that make protection of research participants an increasingly difficult challenge. By conducting 39 semi-structured interviews with academic scholars in both Switzerland and United States, our research aims at exploring the code of ethics and research practices of academic scholars involved in Big Data studies in the fields of psychology and sociology to understand if the principles set by the Belmont Report are still considered relevant in Big Data research. Our study shows how scholars generally find traditional

SUBMITTER: Favaretto M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7644008 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature