Is studying human behavior ethical?

[ChefPapiChulo]

Yes

No

[Buntyp]

I think that every day of my life is a study of human behavior, my own included, that started before I could speak. So, the study itself seems like a reasonably instinctual human endeavor. The ethics issues seem more related to how the study's data is processed. The expectation of privacy has never been declared or acknowledged as an entitled right, anywhere in the world, apparently. The right to challenge various forms of invasion of privacy is based on property use misappropriation more than any reference to privacy, as a legal concept. You can sue someone for breaking and entering your property, but not for any reduction in or assault on your privacy.

Yes, as long as the intent of the study includes conditions that provide for the ethical use of the data.

Define study. Define ethics. If the combined definitions seem ethically compatible, then the study of anything, including human behavior, is ethical.

Sorry, dozed off here. Gonna send it, anyway.

[Whatthefluff]

I mean, how else are you supposed to understand it?
Follow the code of ethics and learn from the bad times of the milgram experiment, monster study, and little Albert