The consents related to human subjects research is different for the human sciences, but especially in qualitative or mixed methods on sensitive topics like suicide, drug use, immigration, etc. However, that is not the APA’s issue, as they frown upon qualitative research. The APA’s entire approach has been to put on the costume of the medical and physical sciences without applying the rigorous ethics of those fields to research. It’s an authoritarian group that wants a monopoly on psychology and neuroscience, but is not really equipped for either. Neuroscience is owned by medicine and psychology is slipping through their fingers (see the APA lobbying push for the only path to licensure to be through them). This is just another example of their garbage policies come home to roost.
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