Benefits could also be perceived on a more individual level, in that participants receive financial compensation for their involvement in the study.

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...
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