Aprofessor at big state university proposes to study attitudes about obesity in chile by giving subjects in chile surveys to complete. which is a question that the big state university irb should ask the researcher in order to determine if this study should be reviewed by a local chilean irb or ethics committee as well as the big state university irb?
a) will the resarcher have collaborators at the research site abroad?
b) does the potential subject population include children?
c) does the professor speak spanish fluently?
d) is the survey more than minimal risk?

The answer is Option A: Will the researcher have collaborators at the research site abroad?

Explanation:

If the researcher will have collaborators in the host country it may be reasonable for the researchers to also present the project for review at with a local institutional review board in the host country, however many countries around the world do not have the same kind of official or formal review process for research work or established ethical standards. In such cases, it is up to individual researchers to carry out their research studies ethically and without harm to the research subjects.

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.

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