It is clearly unethical to experimentally put people into traumatic situations. Even temporarily telling a group of subjects that their families had been killed, even though they had not, would be highly unethical and would never be approved by a research committee. However, social scientists can study groups of people who have had traumatic events happen even though the researchers now have less control over the situation. This type of research is described as

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The term "quasi-experimental" refers to research that is not fully experimental, as the researcher cannot directly manipulate the independent variable, but still includes some elements of experimental design, such as the use of control groups or manipulation of variables. In the context of studying traumatic events, researchers cannot ethically create traumatic situations for subjects, but they can study groups of people who have already experienced trauma. This would fall under the category of quasi-experimental research.

It Is Clearly Unethical to Experimentally Put People into Traumatic