... informed consent. This can be justified so not to influence the outcome. Providing that they debrief the participants on all aspects of the procedure after the test. However other ethical issues were brought up in both their tests. Deception, embarrassment, conflict situation, ecological validity, as in the Asch line test were participants were put into a situation were the group were all strangers and participants felt embarrassed. Evidence for this was obtained by Bogdonoff et al. (1961), who found that the participants in Asch's test had greater levels of autonomic arousal. This also suggests they were in a conflict situation because they found it hard to say what they saw or conform to avoid embarrassment. In Milgrams test the right to withdraw was removed because everytime the participant wanted to leave the experimenter constantly pressured the participant to carry on for the benefit of the test, therefore the participant felt he ...

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