Subtitle: Psychologists used to manipulate and deceive their subjects with impunity. Did the end justify the means? And the answer is an easy, explicit "no". T

Subtitle: Psychologists used to manipulate and deceive their subjects with impunity. Did the end justify the means? And the answer is an easy, explicit "no". This is why we now have ethics committees. If you do actually need to deceive your subjects for your study, then your study has to pass an ethics committee who will weigh up the benefits of the research against the required deception. But yet again we see another article that basically treats the entire field of psychology as starting, ending, and only encompassing Milgram's infamous experiment from 54 years ago...