Behavioral Research Ethics Review overview

Reviews behavioral research protocols for ethical compliance and data protection -- evaluating informed consent procedures and participant debriefing adequacy, verifying IRB/ethics board approval documentation and amendment tracking, assessing data anonymization and re-identification risk for sensitive behavioral datasets, auditing survey instruments and experimental designs for potential participant harm or coercion, reviewing data retention and destruction schedules against institutional policy and GDPR requirements, and validating that algorithmic analysis of behavioral data respects participant consent scope. Produces ethics compliance assessment, risk classification report, and remediation requirements. Excludes research design authoring.