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Can Researchers Experience Moral Distress?
In the context of healthcare, moral distress has traditionally described the emotional and psychological distress healthcare providers experience when they are prevented from acting in the way they feel is most ethical or just. Their moral agency is typically constrained by institutional policies, pressures, or a lack of resources. NPR, for instance, recently reported on […]
How Should Adolescents Be Included in Clinical Psychedelic Research?
Psychedelic-assisted therapy will soon be approved for adults. If the history of adult psychiatric drugs is any guide, adolescents will not be far behind — which makes the question of how they should be included in research an urgent one. That question has typically been framed through the lens of autonomy, and specifically through the […]
The Promises and Challenges for Ethical Carebots
Our research team has recently completed a pilot study with groups of older adults (N=11) and family care partners (N=9) to interact with Sava, our humanoid Pepper robot that is trained to assist with conversation and emotional support. We studied the potential effects of socially assistive robots, or carebots, for supporting persons with mild cognitive […]
Open Science, Counterscience, and the Limits of Trust
A recent New York Times investigative report by Mike McIntire describes how genetic and brain imaging data from thousands of U.S. children were used by a small group of researchers to advance a race science agenda. The data came from two large, federally funded studies—the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort (PNC) and the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development […]