This commentary advocates for psychology to enhance its ethical responsibility, suggesting a shift from selective allyship to proactive engagement in crises.
Psychology is committed to the principle of nonmaleficence (i.e., do no harm). Yet the discipline's past failures and its current selective allyship with only some crises paint a problematic picture. The authors argue that psychology as a discipline and psychological associations as its representatives should better uphold their ethical responsibility. Psychology is committed to the principle of nonmaleficence. This Comment argues that psychology as a discipline and psychological associations as its representatives should uphold their ethical responsibility
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