III. DECEPTION in RESEARCH
Laura Stark (2005, p. 2) recognizes that there has been tension in psychology research between the moral abhorrence associated with deception in research, and the perception of its necessity. According to Stark (p. 3), the federal government realized the necessity of regulation in terms of deception in psychological research. This realization brought about the National Research Act of 1973, according to which certain guidelines and regulations were established to take into account the rights of human subjects in research. In the same year, researchers were also provided with the right to not fully disclose the details of research if this were considered to be necessary.
Stark (p. 10) notes that the main reasons for deception in psychological research during the 1950s and 1960s related to the validity of research in terms of human subjects in a "natural" setting. The setting was considered to be more natural if subjects did not receive full disclosure related to the nature of the study. In such cases, a degree of deception was therefore considered to be acceptable.
A further complication that Stark (p. 15) notes is the fact that there are divergent ideas on what the term deception in fact refers to, and to which degree such practices can be considered acceptable. The Purdue University (2009) for example makes a distinction between deception and concealment. Concealment is defined as non-disclosure of all the details of the research for the purpose of preserving the validity of the results, whereas deception is taken to mean that participants receive information that is deliberately untrue. According to Stark, however, the two terms are merely deception in different degrees.
Stark (2005, p. 19) concludes that the ethics and deception concepts in psychological research are still very much in contention. However, the extreme focus on human rights and autonomy today has evolved greatly since the 1970s, which is the focus of Stark's paper....
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