title: Risk assessment as a paradox: when actions of an IRB become incompatible with ethical principles.
abstract: As anecdotal evidence mounts up of Institutional Review Boards becoming an impediment to research, I share a personal experience in this article to argue how the conduct of an Institutional Review Board was incompatible with a number of ethical principles such as Respect for Persons, Deception, Informed Consent, and Justice. I conclude by promoting Evidence-Based Ethical Problem Solving to facilitate and enhance risk assessments through empirical evidence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. v.ranjbar@sms.ed.ac.uk
authors.forename: Vania
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ranjbar
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research / Q000941:ethics*; D032984:Ethics, Research; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000941:ethics; D011340:Problem Solving / Q000941:ethics; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012935:Social Justice; D014481:United States