College Students' Reactions to Social Psychological Experiments Involving Deception
- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 107 (1) , 99-110
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1979.9922678
Abstract
Male and female college students (N = 655) participated in 15 experiments involving various degrees and types of deception. After a thorough debriefing, they rated their experiment on five items dealing with its value, the offensiveness of the deception, and willingness to have a friend participate. The generally positive evaluation of these experiments is discussed in terms of the use of college students and procedural factors which increased their choice about whether to participate.Keywords
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