Things they don't teach you in ethics...

[Ollie123]

How to ask your all female RA staff to help you search through a gigabyte of pornographic jpg's stored on the department server and delete duplicates.

Yes, I had to do this earlier this week and it felt like I was in one of those sexual harassment videos from the 80's. Gotta love the shock factor of it for people who haven't been exposed to the IAPS before. I explained beforehand what we were dealing with, but there's really no preparing people for it.

As you might imagine....AWKWARD.

Just thought you all might find that entertaining.

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[erg923]

So, this is part of your lab's research.....OR.....you have a very liberal department/lab?

 

[HeyJude]

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[Ollie123]

So, this is part of your lab's research.....OR.....you have a very liberal department/lab?

They've been used in past projects I believe (as comparison "appetitive stimuli"), but regardless they come standard with the image sets we have So don't blame us, blame Peter Lang!

We're a health psych lab that has done almost no research on anything remotely approaching sexuality save for a dissertation a year or two ago where women had to try on hideous 2-piece swimsuits to induce body-image self-consciousness (which again, none of these RAs were there for), so explaining why we have a monstrous amount of pornography was....tricky.

 

[erg923]

On my second day of grad school, my ethics professor asked me about my level of religious observance and told me it would hurt my practicum chances.

Huh?...Well, I'm glad I don't go there.

 

[lavalubby111]

just curious ...