Article Review: Science of Ethics, APA Code of Ethics Analysis

This report is an article review of "The Science of Ethics" (Stark, 2010), exploring the significance of ethics in both personal and professional life. The review examines the article's core message, readability, and the ethical considerations within the American Psychological Association (APA) code of ethics. The article investigates survey responses from over 1000 American psychologists in 1960 and how the APA utilized the data to create new principles for psychologists. The review highlights the article's discussion on deception research and the divergence between contemporary research orientations in ethics. It also explores the evolution of the APA's ethics codes, specifically the "resilient self" model, and how fundamental understandings of human nature are written into ethical codes. Furthermore, the review touches upon the APA's Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, discussing ethical standards like human relations, competence, confidentiality, and education, while also mentioning solutions such as informed consent, client welfare, and competence. Overall, the review finds the article to be a valuable resource for understanding the science of ethics and the APA's ethical guidelines.

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Article Review
The Science of Ethics
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3/25/2020

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Contents
The Science of Ethics.................................................................................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Article Review...........................................................................................................................2
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................4

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The Science of Ethics
Introduction
The paper is focused on reviewing the article written by (Stark, 2010) on the topic of
‘Science of ethics’. This article has been chosen for this review writing because ethics are
very important in human’s personal and professional life to achieve great success in the long-
term. Thus, with the help of this review paper, the chosen paper will be evaluated, analysed
and reviewed from so many perspectives like readability, core message, significance,
relevancy, challenges, good aspects, bad aspects and many more.
Article Review
The article is all about ethics and its importance in life. In doing so, the authors have used
survey responses from more than 1000 American psychologists in the era of 1960. The
authors have described the contemporary research practices as well as discussed are those
practices were ethical. In addition to that, it has been found that the author has examined the
procedures with which the American Psychological Association (hereinafter referred to as
APA) utilised aforementioned survey response for further creating new principles. These
principles will be useful for knowing how psychologists should manage, study and thereby
treat human subjects.
Post reviewing the article written by (Stark, 2010), it has been found that the research on the
science of ethics has been focused on useful debates on whether deception research was
satisfactory or not. Apart from this, the core of the article has documented disagreement
between the 2 contemporary research orientations in the context of ethics. In addition to that,
the proposed research has been argued that the ethics committee built the models of the
‘resilient self’ in APA's 1973 ethics codes.
In other words, the article has successfully explored how fundamental understandings of
human nature are typically written into apparently global as well as timeless codes of ethics.
Based on the given article, a lot of knowledge regarding the APA code of ethics has been
explored. For instance, APA typically publishes the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and
Code of Conduct. This code of conduct outlines aspirational principles as well as enforceable
standards which should be used by the psychologists while making decisions. From the deep

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study of this article, it is evident that the current version of the ethics code is also given by
APA, which has been introduced the major difference amid ethics principles and standards.
Conclusion
In whole, the chosen article has successfully discussed significant principles of ethics with
the help of the APA code of ethics. The paper has effectively talked about different ethical
standards such as human relations, competence, confidentiality and privacy, education and
training and many more. While discussing key ethical issues, the paper has successfully
presented possible solutions include informed consent, client welfare, confidentiality, and
competence. In whole, the article is a good choice for getting a better understanding of the
context of the science of ethics.

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References
Stark, L., 2010. The science of ethics: Deception, the resilient self, and the APA code of
ethics, 1966–1973. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 46(4), pp.337-370.