Responsibilities of investigators

Responsibilities of investigators.

Investigating investigators: examining witnesses' influence on investigators.

This research examined the influence of eyewitness identification decisions on participants in the role of police investigators. Undergraduate "investigators" interviewed confederate "witnesses" and then searched a computer database of potential suspects. The database included information on each suspect's physical description, prior criminal record, alibi, and fingerprints. Participants select...

Linking investigators

108 Many multifactorial diseases, such as various forms of cancer, diabetes, coronary heart disease and schizophrenia, still pose a considerable challenge for those researchers intent on understanding their causes. Some progress has been made in identifying the genes that contribute to such diseases and the availability of the sequence of the human genome holds further potential. However, scien...

Neuroethical responsibilities.

Neuroscience represents a dynamic area of biomedical research where neuroethical responsibilities for researchers are emerging. This paper is the companion piece to the French-language one also published in this issue of the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. It serves as a review of recent advances in neuroethics through the lens of three cases: (1) incidental finding of anomalies in n...

The Responsibilities of Engineers

Knowledge of the responsibilities of engineers is the foundation for answering ethical questions about the work of engineers. This paper defines the responsibilities of engineers by considering what constitutes the nature of engineering as a particular form of activity. Specifically, this paper focuses on the ethical responsibilities of engineers qua engineers. Such responsibilities refer to th...