Deception in Research: Economic Management Justification

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Deception in Research: Economic Management Justification

Justification of the use of deception in research is an ending debatable area across social sciences; contrasting positions in the topic have been exemplified in many studies (Sell, 2008). Use of deception in social science can be argued in two perspectives; (i)in social psychology view, deception is justified on “deception if necessary” basing their grounds that (i) it allows for experimental control by enhancing the flexibility of the methodology used and precision (ii) it allows for creation and manipulation of circumstances that cannot occur naturally increasing results validity; (iii) it allows for an investigation of responses and behaviors to an uncommon situation; and (iv) it minimizes experimenter-outcome demand effects (Cook & Yamagishi, 2008; Hertwig & Ortmann, 2008; Sutter, 2009). On the contrary,…