Give an example of when deception may be necessary in a research study. Why would participants need to be deceived? How would you justify to an IRB that the benefits of deception outweigh the possible risks? How would you debrief participants after the study?
What will be an ideal response?
Deception is a critical component of many social psychology experiments in part because of the difficulty of simulating real-world stress and dilemmas in a laboratory setting; Milgram's (1964) study used deception because subjects could not be permitted to administer real electric shocks and it did not make sense to order the subjects to do something that they didn't find to be so troubling; IRB approval may come by convincing others that no psychological harm was caused; debriefing--a researcher's informing subjects after an experiment about the experiment's purposes and methods and evaluating subjects' personal reactions to the experiments.
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