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Are scripts or deception necessary when repeated trials are used? On the social context of psychological experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Adam S. Goodie
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-3013 goodie@egon.psy.uga.edu www.teach.psy.uga.edu/Dept/Faculty/Goodie/goodie.stm

Abstract

Scripts and deception are alternative means, both imperfect, to the goal of simulating an environment that cannot be created readily. Under scripts, participants pretend they are in that environment, while deception convinces participants they are in that environment although they are not. With repeated trials, they ought to be unnecessary. But they are not, which poses challenges to behavioral sciences.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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