Credit: NSF's North Pole Environmental Observatory. These images have attracted media attention, such as this AtlanticWire post and this Daily Mail story, both of which portray the images as potential signs of an intensifying Arctic meltdown.
The first code. If you think APA's new Ethics Code is a lot to swallow, imagine being a psychologist in 1953, the first year the association published an ethics code: a 5.5 by 8.5-inch tome that was more than 170 pages long, compared with this year's slim 16-page document.
Organizations following the utilitarianism approach in ethics make decisions based on their outcomes and consequences. Ethical behaviour is influenced by moral intensity, ethical sensitivity, and the situation. A code of ethics serves a number of key roles. A code of ethics is different from a code of conduct. The code of ethics for an organization or for a profession are developed more in the form of statement of values and beliefs that defines an organization or a group.