Ethics

Predicting Violence in Schizophrenia: an unfulfilled prophecy

["John Torakis"]

January 10, 2025

Abstract This is a brief essay on violence risk assessment tools, the need for such tools, their categorizations as well as their usage. With the link between psychosis and violence as a starting point, it draws information from work on schizophrenia, and reviews research predicting violence on schizophrenia patients, a subject that remains inconclusive. Additionally, the aspect of neuroscience is visited in predicting behaviour, highlighting its problems and explaining the reasons it currently lacks accuracy. ...

The university student as a study subject in psychology

["John Torakis"]

April 15, 2024

Abstract This essay explores the topic of participation of university students to scientific studies, with a focus on Psychology students. The topic is introduced through historical examples, that participation proved to be ethically questionable and later was examined in two ways. The student-centered perspective on ethics of participation, such as the possibility of coercion and the effect of reward to the participants, are all inspected in this essay. Also, a more result-driven approach is taken, attempting to find out whether the phenomenon of student participants does impact the study results themselves. ...