Under which of the following circumstances would deception be allowed in a research project?
A) Deception is allowed when the research project will involve significant risk, such that otherwise, few people would volunteer to be in the study.
B) Deception is allowed when a full debriefing will not be used.
C) Deception is allowed when participants are not permitted to withdraw their data from the study.
D) Deception is allowed when the results of a study would be contaminated by participants' knowledge of the experiment.

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Deception is allowed when it is necessary to maintain the integrity of the research, such as when participants' knowledge of the experiment could influence their behavior and thus contaminate the results. However, ethical guidelines require that deception be minimized and that participants are debriefed afterward.

Under Which of the Following Circumstances Would Deception Be Allowed