Dr. Ewell, a developmental psychologist, is planning on conducting a study that involves watching children play together to determine how sharing behavior occurs in same-sex friend pairs compared to opposite-sex friend pairs.
Imagine that Dr. Ewell wants to videotape the children interacting in the park. Why would most psychologists have no problem with the ethics of Dr. Ewell's study?

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Psychologists would not have a problem with Dr. Ewell videotaping children playing in a public park because people in public places generally do not expect their behavior to be private. This means that there is no invasion of the participants' privacy, which is an important ethical consideration in research.

Dr Ewell, a Developmental Psychologist, Is Planning on Conducting a Study