Viewpoint: The costs and benefits of deception in economic experiments |
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| Institution: | 1. Cognitive and Developmental Psychology Unit, Center for Cognitive Science, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany;2. Clinic of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany;3. University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;1. Department of Dermatology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah;2. Department of Surgery, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah;3. Department of Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah;4. Department of Oncological Sciences, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah;5. Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah;7. George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah;6. University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin;1. MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Ecology and Cultivation (The Middle Reaches of Yangtze River), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China;2. Hubei Key Laboratory of Food Crop Germplasm and Genetic Improvement, Wuhan 430064, Hubei, China;3. Soil Science Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Benha University, Moshtohor, Toukh 13736, Kalyoubia, Egypt;1. Emory University, Department of Psychology, United States;2. Emory University, Center for Ethics, Neuroethics Program, United States;1. Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA;2. Department of Psychology, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA;3. Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA;4. Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA;1. College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China;2. Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China;3. Hunan Rice Research Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha 410125, China;4. Changde Research Institute of Agricultural Science, Changde 415000, China;5. Hunan Plant Protection Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha 410125, China |
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| Abstract: | The historical justifications typically given for the prohibition against deception in economic experiments are less relevant for today’s experiments that are often conducted in non-lab settings with non-student subjects. I describe a variety of research questions that might be most adequately answered with some form of deception, and call for a more nuanced view of the issue that requires a consideration of the importance of the research question relative to the potential costs of deception. For example, in the case of new food products that have not yet been developed, does the sin of hypothetical bias outweigh the sin of deceiving subjects in a non-hypothetical experiment? It is important for journals or professions, which ban the use of deception, to actually define what practices fall under the ban. |
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| Keywords: | Experimental economics Deception Research ethics |
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