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Deception and Debriefing

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State

Deception withholds or misstates a study's purpose during participation; debriefing discloses it fully afterward.

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Participants told they are testing memory learn at the end that the confederate beside them was part of the design.

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Debriefing does not make deception costless. It makes deception reviewable, which is the standard it must meet.