2008-10-28, 12:09 PM
Quote:Participants were clearly stressed and some must have been embarrassed by the procedure and suffered some loss of self esteem once they had been informed that it had all been a big con. This all constitutes psychological harm.http://www.psychology4a.com/Social%20influence.htm
I don't remember if debriefing was introduced before or after his experiment, but research ethics are a pretty recent thing.

