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Ethical guidance: taken from professional associations and
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When starting your fieldwork you must first take a look at the
ethical guidance provided to you either by your institution (in
our case Leiden University) or a board of ethics. By first
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Consequential: Ethical decision-making should be based on
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Deontological: Actions are ethical when they are morally
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How do these principles translate into feasible
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- Getting consent forms—from your-participants
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- Keep your participants out of harm's way,
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participants. Tailese is nort always easy since
explaining certain parts of your research could
affect how the participant behaves and
contaminate results. Nevertheless ou should
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