Ethics in Psychological Research
Deception

Deception in Psychological Research
Deception in itself is fraudulent behavior. When someone seldom tells and untruth it appears to be harmless to some, however the same act could be devastating to the next person. Deception can effect one or millions. Take the case of Bernard Madoff who took it upon himself to deceive his clients who trust him to manage their financial holding for them be investing and earning them money in return. Madoff’s level of deception affected and damaged many families. What frame or state of emotional or mental state was he in, what was the thing that initially triggered Madoff to initiate his scheming plan?
Ethics Code
The code of ethics as it relates to psychology pertains to the educational, scientific, and professionals and their activities in the field of psychology which include training, service to the public and communities, intervention, clinical research, counseling. Some other areas include development and conducting assessments, along with program design, organizational consulting, evaluation consulting. Code of Ethics in Psychology applies in these areas as well forensic activities and administrations. Other venues that is different from the private sector as it applies to the conduct or behavior of professionals in the field of psychology which spam in a large area like the postal service, telephone service, the internet and most electrical communication devices.
Detecting Deception
Detecting those individuals who tell the truth from those who systematically tell lies intentionally is discerning. People who deceive will do it in a way that is not out in the open it is not obvious people do it by withholding imperative information. Information that can be as devastating if it was just on a personal level or a worldwide level that will have a lasting damaging affect when the result of the deception is revealed.
However the person who sets out to deceive, his or her mind set is to mislead to accomplish some kind of personal gain either in his or her personal, professional, or social climbing lifestyle. This deception grows very deep when it has the ability to stump the authorities like the FBI, they have the ability to pull the wool over the eyes of judges with their lies in court, many have come into this and other countries right underneath the nose of our customs officers with fraudulent documents. Researchers have found that the confusion even puzzles the minds of drug enforcement officers and forensic professional, and the CIA. Being able to detect a person who is being sneaky with their continued deception it is very difficult to separate the lies from the truth. There is a 50/50 chance of being able to distinguish from who is telling the truth from those who are not, the chances of this being detected is just like flipping a coin or playing spin the bottle. Some are clever enough to upset a polygraph test to the point where the administrators believe the test is unreliable.
Tools of Engagement There are tools or methods used to aide in detecting individuals who engage in fraudulent behaviors. These method help to reinforce and detect dishonest behavior they include detecting and being able to read facial expression, positive and negative body language as well as individual style of hand writing. Psychologists are coming up with new developmental software that will analyze and detect and help a person find clues that will bring the deception to the forefront. The training is in progress by psychologist like Paul Ekman PhD. to prepare law-enforcement officers and other professional. Interviewing skills are another technique that is being utilized by a variety of federal agencies like airport security, foreign officers, terrorist interrogators, police counter agents including the FBI and the CIA agencies.
Necessary Deception In the field or practice of psychology it became quite necessary to use a certain amount of not so favorable tactics in order to accomplish some leverage or some goal. In order to accomplish the efforts of the psychologist it is imperative that certain step be taken by the researcher by his own effort he will sometimes withhold important information when given a test to an individual in order to reach a desired goal. Sometimes he or she will even go as far as to mislead the client in order to acquire a desire results. People behavior and exhibit different behaviors and attitudes and attribute when given certain information to lead them or guild them in the direction that the administrator would have them go just to obtain certain behaviors or patterns.

References http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx Detecting Deception: Adelson, R., (2004), Vol 35, No. 7 page 70
http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug04/detecting.aspx