The American Psychological Association approved a resolution on Friday to bar its members from involvement in national-security interrogations, a move meant to resolve a longstanding controversy over the role of psychologists in the harsh questioning of terrorism suspects. The measure was triggered by a recent report that found that some of the group’s leaders had colluded with the Pentagon to tweak the APA’s ethics guidelines to allow psychologists to play a role in brutal interrogations at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and other American detention facilities. The report, written by David H. Hoffman, a former federal prosecutor, led to the departure of several staff members and a great deal of soul searching during the group’s annual conference, which started here on Thursday.

August 10, 2015 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education