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To find articles about experiments that violate APA (American Psychological Association) ethical standards, follow the steps below.  

1. First, identify an unethical human experiment. One way to do this is by simply searching Google for “unethical human experimentation”.
   • A variety of results will show up, from "10 Outrageous Experiments Conducted on Humans", to Wikipedia’s page on Unethical human experimentation in the US. Remember, this is just to identify an unethical experiment.
2. Next, go to the Library home page and try searching in a database like All EBSCO. Use names or keywords specific to an experiment to try to find peer-reviewed articles.
   • For example, to find articles about the Little Albert experiment in 1920, a simple search for (“Little Albert” AND experiment) will bring up some relevant results. 
   • Some experiments will have more results than others, so give different ones a try.