A Researcher Interested in Aggression Told Participants His Experiment Investigated

Multiple Choice

A researcher interested in aggression told participants his experiment investigated whether paying attention to details would affect how things taste.One group of participants wrote down details from a 5-minute violent gun scene.The second group of participants wrote details while watching a high-speed car chase.Afterward,participants tasted and rated a sample of water with a drop of hot sauce in it as a measure of "taste sensitivity." They were then asked to prepare a sample of water for the next participant,and could put in as much hot sauce as they wanted.There was no "next participant;" the amount of hot sauce was a measure of aggression.The researcher predicted participants who watched the violent gun scene would add more hot sauce.The ethical issue most relevant to this experiment is

A) asking participants to write details about movie scenes.
B) deception.
C) using hot sauce as a measure of aggression.
D) cross-cultural bias.