Imagine that you have just participated in Milgram's study. How would you feel about the deception that occurred? Is it ever appropriate to deceive participants in research studies?If so, when? If not, why not?
2007-09-25 13:04:05 · 2 answers · asked by iqbalkhanayesha 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
As long as the participants are aware of the fact that they are being tested on their emotional responses to both negative and positive stimuli, I see no ethical conundrum.
The participants need to be aware that they are simulating a real life situation, not living it.
2007-09-26 06:05:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but you have to remember we are a sick society. There are other ways, but we are almost too dumb to even know of them or profit much by the experiments. The why not is that then we might be forced to actually think and then we wouldn't need to do these things. There is enough information on the net today to learn how to think and in the future we may. Just look up emotional intelligence and that's the academic door. It's true. There are enough real world situations to study without creating artificial ones, but you have to be clear headed, like unbiased, for instance. It is much less effective for a twisted experimenter to experiment that to do it after they become untwisted.
2007-09-26 06:41:10 · answer #2 · answered by hb12 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋