Little Albert and Research Ethics
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The Little Albert study is canonical in the conditioning literature and would not receive ethical approval under current review standards.
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No informed consent for the fear conditioning was obtained, and the fear was never extinguished.
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Both facts belong in any account of it. Citing the finding without the ethics is how the field taught it for decades.
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