Ethical guidelines have been adopted to help psychologist conduct research appropriately. In the film, The Truman Show, executive producer Christof coordinates a live broadcast of Truman Burbank’s everyday life; controlling and manipulating his mind. The center issue in The Truman Show is how Christof orchestrated an inappropriate exhibition, unfollowing ethnic guidelines. Psychologist need to have beneficence and not cause any harm, in general, while conducting an experiment. Christof did not seek the welfare of Truman, but the entertaining results it caused when he manipulated Truman’s mind. For instance, Christof removed Truman’s true love, Sylvia, from the “experiment” and replaced her with Meryl. This shows that this type of harm, mental harm, affected Truman in a depressing state for a while, according to the film. Another form of this harm brought upon Truman, is when he lost his father. Truman was only a child when he and his father went out to the ocean to fish. Christof and all of his colleagues decided that Truman losing his father in a storm would be entertaining for the audience. In doing so, Truman, as an adult, has had traumatic experiences when he gets near oceans. If all this had not happen and Truman’s welfare were valued, principle A, from the five ethical guidelines, would have been appropriately followed. …show more content…
Truman was not aware of what was outside the “studio” which was considered a community. Christof not once clarified his professional role to Truman. However, everyone besides Truman, knew, for they were hired to be unfaithful to Truman for the purpose of the show. This shows the unfaithfulness shown to Truman, the