Which of the following is a potential negative consequence of the use of deception in behavioral research?
A) The participants may believe the deception.
B) The deception may cause the participants to guess what is being studied.
C) Participants may learn to expect to be deceived in future experiments, making those experiments harder to conduct.
D) The deception may undermine the ability of the researcher to fully understand the collected data.

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Deception in research can lead to participants becoming distrustful or skeptical about the intentions behind experiments. If participants learn to expect deception, they might change their behavior in future studies, potentially compromising the integrity of those experiments by being overly cautious or trying to "outsmart" the study, making it harder for researchers to conduct experiments without bias or altered outcomes.

Which of the Following Is a Potential Negative Consequence of the Use