Word: pattullo
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Love and sex and all that. Zick Rubin, associate professor of Psychology, is an authority on "couples research." Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Center for the Behavioral Sciences and chairman of the CUHS, says that such research is one of the most ethically difficult fields of inquiry--last spring the Committee discouraged a graduate student from conducting a study in the area because, according to Committee member David Gartrell, the student lacked "the requisite counseling skills." But the CUHS has not hindered Rubin's research-- although according to Gartrell, Rubin himself found his work was "very intrusive...
Through questionnaires, interviews and laboratory experiments, Rubin studies the relationships between men and women in student dating. "This tends to be a problem, first, in terms of recruiting," Pattullo says. "Each member of the couple should feel equally free to say no." But one member may ask the other, why don't you participate? What are you unwilling to share...
...Pattullo says that some subjects "may regret" participating in couples research. Those subjects, he believes, should be offered "some help" afterwards by the researcher...
Such doubts certainly account at least in part for Pattullo's relaxed attitude toward review. In its nine-year history, Pattullo's committee has not rejected a single proposal...
...CUHS has enormous power to affect psychology research, but Pattullo prefers to emphasize deference and compromise. "We've always been able to work out changes in the procedure," he says, "or the investigator has been able to be persuaded to do something else." Here Pattullo emphasizes "persuaded" -- not, he says, "intimidated...