The APA Ethical Guidelines help ensure that all psychological research maintains integrity and does not harm or conflict with the codes moral ethics of the majority of human populations. However, in some situations, the APA ethical guidelines should be considered just that: guidelines. If a study has the potential to benefit humanity as a whole and does not result in permanent or irreparable harm to any human being, then certain guidelines should be able to be extended, or even broken, in the interest of human progress and scientist. After all, the goal and responsibility of a psychologist is to improve our understanding of human behavior and find ways to use this information to improve society and humanity as a whole. In a circumstance likely to achieve this goal, violation of APA ethical guidelines is acceptable provided the research maintains the integrity of not inflicting irreparable damage or harm to the subjects used. This includes psychological harm, physical harm, or social humiliation toward any human being, regardless of age, size, race, gender, disability, or other defining characteristic. APA ethical guidelines include informed consent, deception, debriefing, withdrawal, confidentiality, and protection. evil. Informed consent means informing subjects in advance of the purpose of the study so that the subject can give consent with knowledge of what they are consenting to. This reduces the potential for stress or any damage. There are, however, cases where the experimenter reveals neither the entirety of the experiment nor the desired goal. For example, in Milgram's study on obedience, participants were told that the...... middle of document...... the basis of ethics, in which the guidelines require that No participant may be harmed in any way. result of or in the course of an experiment or study of any kind. This directive, when manipulated, causes a huge controversial outcry. For example, in Milgram's obedience experiment, where participants had to give electric shocks to helpless victims whose loss of self-esteem they suffered. In conclusion, APA ethical guidelines may sometimes be urged to conform for the benefit of humanity or scientific progress; However, they should never be handled lightly, the APA ethical guidelines are in place for a very specific and concise reason: to maintain the moral integrity of psychological research as well as to ensure the rights and the safety of all those who participate in the process of bringing more knowledge to the vast fields of psychological science.