Deception in experiments: Towards guidelines on use in applied economics research

摘要: Many applied economics journals ban the use of deception in experiments, which contrasts with policies other academic disciplines. We examine cases for and against deception, describe ways can be employed experiments. create a general ranking harms from experiments present evidence survey (conducted summer 2014) agricultural economists eliciting attitudes towards ten different deceptive practices. Survey respondents view inflicting physical or psychological harm on participants not making promised payments as most severe forms deception. Less include providing incomplete product information conducting an experiment using who are aware they part experiment. Finally, we provide recommendations addressing