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Social Psychological Research Examples

The Milgram experiment is a famous psychological study that investigated obedience to authority, wherein participants believed they were administering lethal electric shocks to another person. The study is a prominent example of active deception in research, as it utilized phony equipment (a fake shock generator) and confederates to mislead participants. While the deception resulted in severe psychological stress for participants, it demonstrated that some socially important research questions are difficult to answer without deceiving subjects.

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