The NY Times has an editorial that condemns the participation of psychologists in interrogations. It also references an Op-Ed by Nadine Kaslow, President of the APA.
Link to the editorial
Link to the Op-Ed by Nadine Kaslow
Month: December 2014
Getting involved in research as an undergrad
SPSP (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) published a brief primer on getting involved in research as an undergraduate. It’s worth checking out:
Link to the article at SPSP.org.
Learned Helplessness and the CIA’s Torture Methods at Guantanamo
Benedict Carey writes in the New York Times about two military torturers psychologists who (mis)used the theory of learned helplessness in their use of torture enhanced interrogation at Gitmo. This is not the first time that psychological theory has been used for ill purposes, and won’t be the last, unfortunately.
One of the researchers who conducted the initial studies on dogs, the prominent psychologist Martin J. Seligman, said he was “grieved and horrified” that his work was cited to justify the abusive interrogations.
Link to the NY Times article. The use of torture as been covered in this blog previously here and here.