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Ethical Issues Of Deception In Psychological Research

Ethical Issues of Deception in Psychological Research

Ethical issues are a major area for concern in psychological studies,
and that in some way or another ethical guidelines are compromised.

Deception is one of the most controversial aspects in psychological
research. The definition of the word deception is not always clear and
is defined differentially by different people. An example of this is
Hey (1998) who pointed out that ‘there is a world of difference
between not telling participants' things and telling them the wrong
things'. On the other hand Adair, Dushenko and Lindsay (1985) define
deception in psychological research as: the provision of information
that actively misleads participants regarding some aspect of the
study. Christensen (1977) defines deception in psychological research
as an explicit misstatement of fact.

For the purpose of this essay I am going to use the definition of
deception cited in the Oxford English Dictionary. Here......


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