Week 12- Question 1

(Regarding Chapter 13) Which of the research methods listed in Table 13.3 seem the most interesting? Assume you want to study some aspect of deception. Frame a research question. Which method would you choose to answer the question. Why

The most interesting research method that I found was Ethnography. This research method is really interesting to me because you can go undercover. As a researcher you can be in the same environment and draw conclusions first hand. This method reminds me of the movie Never Been Kissed. She had to go to her old high school and act as a student and find a story worth writing about. I would love to go into an environment and observe and be able to draw my own conclusions from them.

With regards to doing a study in a aspect of deception, I would use Performance research to code they’re responses. In deception I would be interested in affairs. Specifically, focusing on the husband and mistress relationship. I would become a mistress and play that role to come up with my conclusions. My research question would be; How do mistresses believe that they will eventually become the wives of their lovers
when the husband hasn’t filed for divorce? I feel like if I observe and listen to people that are in situations like this we would all know why people in affairs do what they do.