When researchers use deception the real purpose of the study cannot be made available so the researcher misleads or withholds information from participants. Passive deception occurs when information is intentionally held back from participants of an experiment. Whereas active deception occurs when a participant's decisions are influenced due to given misinformation. For example, adding a placebo in the experiment. Deceptive withholding of information is ethical while carrying out an experiment, but participants feel like they are being cheated upon when not given full information about the researcher and the experiment being conducted. In most cases, the researcher should try and avoid deceiving the participants as much as they can, Ethically,
