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  • Title: Ethical principles of the American Psychological Association: an argument for philosophical and practical ranking.
    Author: Hadjistavropoulos T, Malloy DC.
    Journal: Ethics Behav; 1999; 9(2):127-40. PubMed ID: 11657203.
    Abstract:
    Unlike the American Psychological Association (APA), the Canadian Psychological Association has adopted a code of ethics in which principles are organized in order of importance. The validity of this hierarchical organization has received some empirical and theoretical support. We conducted a theoretical analysis that revealed conceptual justification for a ranking of the 6 principles in the APA code. Such a ranking could assist psychologists in making more informed and consistent moral choices when confronted with ethical dilemmas that involve conflicts among principles.
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