2007 Graduate Student Ethics Prize

The APA Ethics Committee and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) are pleased to announce the sixth annual prize for a graduate student paper on psychology and ethics. The prize is open to graduate student affiliates of APA (APAGS members) currently enrolled in a psychology graduate program.

The honoree will receive $1,000, a round trip ticket to APA's 2007 Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA (August 17-20), and three nights of hotel accommodation. The prize will be presented at the convention, where the student will have an opportunity to present the winning paper for comment by members of the APA Ethics Committee.

"Psychology and ethics" is defined broadly, to include any empirical or theoretical paper that examines psychology and ethics in relation to science or research, practice, education, public interest, or theory of ethics. The paper must indicate why its particular focus is worthy of attention.

Submissions must be written in APA style and may not exceed 25 double-spaced pages (including tables and references). Submissions may not have been previously published or submitted for publication.

While it is expected that authors will receive assistance from faculty advisors, such assistance must not be sufficiently extensive for the faculty member to merit authorship on the paper. The student author must be able to claim sole authorship. While papers written for ethics courses are acceptable, it is generally the case that course papers require considerable additional work to warrant serious contention for the Ethics Prize, which is normally awarded to a paper of near-publishable quality.

Please submit papers to:

APA Office of Ethics
(attn: Ethics Prize)
American Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC, 20002

Applicants should submit three hard copies:

• two copies should have no identifying information
• the third copy should indicate name and contact information, including an email address.

Papers must be received in the Ethics Office by Friday, March 18, 2007 in order to be eligible for the prize.

The Committee judging the award, which is comprised of members from the Ethics Committee and APAGS, will review papers based upon quality and originality of ideas, clarity of analysis and expression, and adequacy of literature review. The Committee will announce the winning paper by June 1.

Questions about the prize should be submitted to Stephen Behnke under the subject heading "Student ethics prize."