A professional association can compromise ethics to protect its financial relationships

Evidence

As he summarized it, “APA chose its ethics policy based on its goals of helping DoD managing its PR [public relations], and maximizing the growth of profession” (Hoffman et al., 2015). The report described a variety of incentives for currying favor with the DoD. It is one of the largest employers of psychologists. It funds research grants and contracts and underwrites conferences. It also supported a demonstration project testing the feasibility of granting psychologists prescription privileges. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2383

Categorization

• XREF: Structural incentive corruption as mechanism parallels the vault’s claims about institutions normalizing harmful policy through institutional self-interest rather than individual evil. — connects to: Professional ethics rules banning advertising protected elite lawyers over clients — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 1281
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2383