Word: letterization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sixty psychologists across the nation signed the letter, which was sent on Sept. 30, including HMS professors Lane Conn, Sarah A. Conn, lecturer on psychology, Susan E. Linn and Lynne B. Layton, assistant clinical professor of psychology...
Among other things, the letter urges an explicit condemnation of using psychological knowledge to design advertising aimed at children...
...psychological insight and methodology to bypass parents and influence the behavior of children is a crisis for the profession of psychology," the letter states...
...authors of the letter also stressed the need for limits for psychologists who use their training for commercial purposes and for an investigation into the ongoing use of research in advertising...
Most advertisers and researchers agree that manipulating children into desiring harmful products--such as tobacco or alcohol--is a problem, but the psychologists who signed the letter to the APA point to a deep-rooted problem in consumer culture--treating children as a separate market...