Elizabeth Carll, PhD ecarll@optonline.net Revision of APA Ethics Code Council approved revision of Ethics code 3.04 (Avoiding Harm) prohibiting psychologists from torture to define the term in 3.04(b) as “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person, or in any other cruel, inhuman, or degrading…
Jerri Lynn Hogg, PhD hoggjl@aol.com Actress Marina Sirtis took to Twitter one Sunday in mid-October to discuss eating disorders. Sirtis, who is probably best known for her role as “ship’s counselor” (or psychologist) Deanna Troi in the 1990’s television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, has been quoted in the popular press as acknowledging episodes…
Mary Gregerson, PhD Independent Practice, Leavenworth, KS mary.gregerson@aol.com For Auld Lang Syne*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA “Aloha!” means “Goodbye” and “Hello” in Hawai’i. Following their double meaning, first, a brief “Goodbye’ to Division 46 in my final President’s Column, before an energetic “Hello” to Division 46 2026, the future. “Aloha!” as Good-Bye: Yesteryear Once upon a time, long ago…
Joanne Broder Sumerson, PhD joannebrodersumerson@gmail.com I am excited and honored to serve as the forthcoming president of the Society for Media Psychology and Technology. I served as the Division’s Membership Chair for almost a decade, so my overall goal as your incoming President is to implement opportunities to help meet various membership needs. My favorite…
Jerri Lynn Hogg, PhD HoggJL@aol.com The Earth is alive with energy. That’s both a metaphor and a scientific fact: just as all life, learning, and activity depends on energy from the environment, the planet itself carries an electrical potential, and researchers say that connecting to it seems to convey both physiological and psychological benefits. Chevalier,…
Joanne Broder Sumerson, PhD joannebrodersumerson@gmail.com Technology has largely changed our lives for the better. Turn back the clock to 2004 and we had not hit the mobile wave (Saylor, 2012) of smartphone and social media use. Online learning needed a camera crew for the professor and a special computer lab for the students, as opposed…
Mary Gregerson, PhD mary.gregerson@aol.com Primum non nocere, Latin for “first, do no harm,” is one half of the bioethics of the Hippocratic Oath, the other part being “to do good.” “Doing good” has been a recent theme for APA Division 46 The Society for Media Psychology & Technology (see Amplifier Spring/Summer 2015). What, though, of…
