The “Good” Psychologist, “Good” Torture, and “Good” Reputation—Response to O’Donohue, Snipes, Dalto, Soto, Maragakis, and Im (2014) “The Ethics of Enhanced Interrogations and Torture”

Arrigo, Jean Maria; DeBatto, David; Rockwood, Lawrence P.; Mawe, Timothy

doi:10.1080/10508422.2015.1007996

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“…But the real ethical consideration would say…by producing pain or questioning of somebody, if it does the most good for the most people, it’s entirely ethical, and to do otherwise would be unethical.” (“Military Psychologist Says Harsh Tactics Justified,” 2009; see also Richey, 2007) More recently, a group of six university-based psychologists presented a similar view based on consequentialist ethics, deontological ethics, virtue ethics, and efficacy. They concluded “that psychologists, in order to behave consistently with their moral obligations to the community, to their ethical duties, in order to minimize harm, and to act virtuously may, in certain circumstances, need to participate in torture” (O’Donohue et al, 2014, p. 121; see also O’Donohue, Maragakis, Snipes, & Soto, 2015; for critiques and sharply opposing views, see Arrigo, DeBatto, Rockwood, & Mawe, 2015; Eisenhower, 2017).…”

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A Human Rights and Ethics Crisis Facing the World’s Largest Organization of Psychologists

Pope

2019

European Psychologist

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A crisis of human rights and ethics has engulfed the American Psychological Association (APA). The APA acknowledged "this stain on our collective integrity." What caused this continuing crisis? How did the APA become so ethically lost that the president-elect announced the need to reset their moral compass? This article documents decisions and policies that address those questions. It reviews factors that weaken our defense of human rights and ethics, such as confusing the map with the territory, legal duties with ethical duties, guild ethics with professional ethics, and effective methods with ethical methods. It considers cultural, racial, and religious aspects of the crisis. It examines the dangers of euphemism and ambiguity and maps the failure of prohibitions, policies, and public pronouncements. It traces organizational tendencies to point fingers elsewhere, outsource ethics, and roll back reforms. It highlights our responsibility to search actively for opposing views and disconfirming information to help us overcome confirmation bias, GroupThink, WYSIATI (What You See Is All There Is) bias, optimistic bias, and false consensus. It discusses the APA's crisis in the context of the rollback of human rights in most countries and the US's growing public support for torture. It notes current controversies, including reform rollbacks, subordinating ethics to the power of the state, and three lawsuits alleging false and defamatory statements made with malice. The article suggests six principles to help bring APA's continuing crisis to an end and prevent future crises.

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A Human Rights and Ethics Crisis Facing the World’s Largest Organization of Psychologists

Pope

2019

European Psychologist

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“…Psychologists' purported involvement in socalled enhanced interviewing and its association with torture, however, has led to contemporary debates about psychologists' role and the use of psychological knowledge during interviews and interrogations (see, e.g. Arrigo, DeBatto, Rockwood, & Mawe, 2015;O'Donohue, Maragakis, Snipes, & Soto, 2015;O'Donohue et al, 2014;Suedfeld, 2007).…”

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Moral Challenges for Psychologists Working in Psychology and Law

Allan

2018

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

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States have an obligation to protect themselves and their citizens from harm, and they use the coercive powers of law to investigate threats, enforce rules and arbitrate disputes, thereby impacting on people's well-being and legal rights and privileges. Psychologists as a collective have a responsibility to use their abilities, knowledge, skill and experience to enhance law's effectiveness, efficiency, and reliability in preventing harm, but their professional behaviour in this collaboration must be moral. They could, however, find their personal values to be inappropriate or there to be insufficient moral guides and could find it difficult to obtain definitive moral guidance from law. The profession's ethical principles do, however, provide well-articulated, generally accepted and profession-appropriate guidance, but practitioners might encounter moral issues that can only be solved by the profession as a whole or society.

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Torture in the Naked Public Square

Eisenhower

2016

Ethics & Behavior

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The “Good” Psychologist, “Good” Torture, and “Good” Reputation—Response to O’Donohue, Snipes, Dalto, Soto, Maragakis, and Im (2014) “The Ethics of Enhanced Interrogations and Torture”

Cited by 4 publications

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A Human Rights and Ethics Crisis Facing the World’s Largest Organization of Psychologists

A Human Rights and Ethics Crisis Facing the World’s Largest Organization of Psychologists

Moral Challenges for Psychologists Working in Psychology and Law

Torture in the Naked Public Square

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