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Male College Students Believe Taking Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Sports is More Unethical than Using Stimulants to Improve Grades, According to New Study

WASHINGTON—In the eyes of young college men, it’s more unethical to use steroids to get an edge in sports than it is to use prescription stimulants to enhance one’s grades, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. And students who had themselves used stimulants without a prescription were more inclined to see [...]

Media Psychologists: Educating the public; demystifying psychotherapy and modeling professional ethics.

News is often about human behavior, thus there’s a natural role for psychologists and other mental health professionals to work with the news media to help people understand behavior and other mental health issues. Bringing their knowledge to the millions of media consumers can help demystify mental health issues and give valuable mental health advice [...]

LEADING PSYCHIATRIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS CALL FOR CLINICAL TRIALS REGISTRY

Arlington, Va.- The American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) today renewed their call for a mandatory public registry for clinical trials in light of a study that shows medical research is published selectively, effectively suppressing and misrepresenting studies deemed negative.

DON’T LET CORPORATE POWER, FINANCIAL INFLUENCE COMPROMISE SCIENCE/ PROFESSION OF PSYCHOLOGY, APA TASK FORCE WARNS

Calls on APA To Develop Further Policies, Education To Protect Integrity of Research, Practice and Applications WASHINGTON, DC—Corporate funding – particularly from pharmaceutical companies – has the potential to create both individual and institutional conflicts of interest and could pose a threat to the integrity of psychological research and practice, according to a special task [...]