The document discusses the ethical considerations that should be followed when conducting research on how color affects mood. It notes that researchers should obtain informed consent, ensure confidentiality and the right to withdraw, avoid deception, provide debriefing, and uphold principles of integrity by not falsifying or plagiarizing data.

1. Topic
: How does the color affect the mood of a person.
Hypothesis
: If red color lighting is used, the level of happiness increase.
Quantitative
: A research method to obtain the scale of participant’s mood through
survey with the students around the campus.
Ethnic consideration : 1. Withdrawal
: Make it crystal clear to the volunteers that even after
they have consented to participate in the study, they
can leave the experiment at any time.
2. Informed consent : Participants should give informed consent
formally after they have been informed of the
nature of your study, and are invited to sign
a consent form.
3. Confidentiality : Ensuring confidentiality has a potential
scientific benefit of improving the internal
validity of your study if it leads participants
to be more honest and open when
responding.
4. Deception
: The principle of integrity promotes the value of
truthfulness and accurate communication.
5. Debriefing
: Once your project is finished, or when you have
analysed and interpreted your results, you should

2. offer your participants a debriefing session.
6. Interpretation of
: The ethical principles of integrity and professional
research
and scientific responsibility involve upholding the
values of truthfulness, honesty and accuracy.
7. Data falsification : Data falsification involves guessing or creating
missing data,in order to generate a complete data set
8. Freedom of
: It should comply with data protection principles of
Information
9. Plagiarism
fair processing of data and security of data.
:
Copying or close paraphrasing of someone else’s
work, and is considered a violation of the
principle of integrity.