Consider the following research situations. What is the ethical component in each example? How do you feel about it? Do you think the procedures

Consider the following research situations. What is the ethical component in each example? How do you feel about it? Do you think the procedures described are ultimately acceptable or unacceptable? A researcher studying dorm life on campus discovers that 60 percent of the residents regularly violate restrictions on alcohol consumption. Publication of the finding would probably create a furor in the campus community. Because no extensive analysis of alcohol use is planned, the researcher decides to keep his findings quiet.