Ethics is an important part of psychology today and should be. Without ethics, human research could prove to be very dangerous and harmful to the mind. Psychologists are required to follow 5 general principles of ethics and could lose their psychology license if they deviate from them. This code can lead to very interesting and safe studies conducted by professional psychologists. The 5 principles are beneficence and non-maleficence, loyalty and responsibility, integrity, justice and respect for the rights and dignity of people (JEPS Bulletin). The first set of ethics is beneficence and nonmaleficence. The term nonmaleficence refers to avoiding unnecessary harm to the subject, and beneficence refers to the actions you take to avoid. Integrity is like honesty, if you promise you will do something you have to keep your promise and do it. Integrity doesn't just mean keeping promises, it also means not being able to hide anything. The term “informed consent” is used when discussing this principle. Informed consent refers to a psychologist telling the subject exactly what is going to happen without withholding any details, even small ones that you think may not matter. You must always be very clear when telling a client what will happen and what you sincerely believe the outcome will be. Quality service is expected from psychologists and they are trained and paid to provide it. By conducting poor studies or providing weak analyses, the psychologist does not follow the principle of integrity. A psychologist is also expected to refuse work if it appears to be harmful or not beneficial to people or a person (Ethics: introduction). The fourth principle is justice. In this context, justice does not mean that it is applied in a court of law, but that the psychologist should be aware of who is providing help or information. For example, if a known inmate comes to you for help, you reserve the right to refuse him, and you should, assuming he poses no threat to you. A psychologist should also be sure that their work is complete and concise before publishing it and also that it is available to all who want it (Ethics: An). However, the third principle has a couple of safe loopholes. As stated previously, informed consent is when a psychologist tells a client or subject exactly what he or she is going to do. While this is the ethical thing to do in most cases, in others the opposite must be done. In the case of testing a placebo versus a real drug, you would not tell the subject what they are taking the brain tells them. In this case, even if you are not using informed consent, you still need to interview the subject so they know what happened (Rathus