Interesting Article on APA's Position on Torture

In September 2008, the American Psychological Association banned its members from participating in interrogations that use torture. (This contrasts with other organizations like American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association which have had such bans in place since 2006.) In an interesting article, Stanley Fish outlines some of the factors that he believes account for this differential response. One factor that he sees as being primary is the fact that in contrast to organizations that are comprised exclusively of health care providers, psychologists may work in roles that extend beyond the concept of "healer."
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Some "Must Read" Articles

The September 2008 edition of Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice (table of contents) has two series of articles that are likely of great relevance to anyone interested in personnel selection. The first set of articles focuses what the authors see as some of the key questions facing personality researchers working on practice-related issues. The second looks at some of the factors which contribute to the resistance of hiring mangers to use empirically supported selection methods in favor of other methods, primarily unstructured interviews, which tend to have very limited predictive validity.
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