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In a meeting during the year 2004, Michael Keeney, PhD, a member of Div. 14 (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology), said he was disturbed by what he perceived as a "blue state" bias during convention--everything from speakers making disparaging references to "red state" officials to a showing of "Outfoxed," a film criticizing alleged right-wing bias in Fox News media. To mitigate these tendencies, Keeney suggested, APA should adopt a policy of having members eschew politics when giving APA presentations. "I've been an APA member since I've been associated with psychology, and I believe in what APA does," Keeney said. "But I think we need to consider expanding our idea of diversity." Anderson responded that while the association is deeply committed to diversity of all kinds, it also respects freedom of speech.
"We want to make sure that all perspectives are respected and not silenced," he said. Again, APA is taking actions to address these concerns, Levant noted. For one, he recently hosted an APA Task Force on Enhancing Diversity, whose purpose is to promote a welcoming climate for all psychologists. For another, APA has trained its leaders to have "difficult dialogues" with people of divergent views, said Tars. "The leadership hopes to extend that throughout APA," she said. APA veteran George Albee, PhD, president of Div. 1 (Society for General Psychology), offered another view on APA's need for diversity. "We're becoming a guild organization," said Albee, who noted that 76 percent of voting council members are practitioners, 20 percent are nonpractitioners and "only a handful are scientists.” We need to recruit more young people into science and human justice and to make council more diverse."
It has sometimes been said that psychology has a long history but a short past. Interest in psychology can be traced back to the Greek philosophers, but psychology as a science is relatively new when compared to the natural sciences.........................
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