{"id":1121,"date":"2021-01-21T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2021-01-21T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:59:11","slug":"apas-political-contributions-how-your-money-was-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/2021\/01\/21\/apas-political-contributions-how-your-money-was-spent\/","title":{"rendered":"APA&#8217;s Political Contributions  (How your money was spent)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting open letter that psychologists should read about the political contributions of the American Psychological Association. I didn&#8217;t write it. You can find the full letter here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reidelson.medium.com\/concerns-about-psychology-pac-and-the-american-psychological-association-16f12b3ea5e9\">https:\/\/reidelson.medium.com\/concerns-about-psychology-pac-and-the-american-psychological-association-16f12b3ea5e9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a quick excerpt: &#8220;<em>As you know, in an unprecedented effort to overturn last November\u2019s presidential election, earlier this month 139 Republican members of the US House of Representatives and 8 members of the Senate refused to certify Joe Biden\u2019s victory over Donald Trump. By casting their \u201cNay\u201d votes, these lawmakers chose to promote baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud\u2014despite repeated court rulings that concluded otherwise. The same false accusations were also the impetus behind the violent insurrection that led a mob of pro-Trump supporters to storm the Capitol Building, endangering lives and destroying property.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our incomplete and perhaps imperfect quick review of data from the Federal Election Commission website indicates that \u201cPsychology PAC\u201d of American Psychological Association Services Inc (APASI)\u2014the companion organization of the American Psychological Association (APA)\u2014made substantial contributions to the campaigns&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> of\u00a0some of these individuals. Are you interested in learning more? Check out the link I provided for the details.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Here is an interesting open letter that psychologists should read about the political contributions of the American Psychological Association. I didn&#8217;t write it. You can <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/2021\/01\/21\/apas-political-contributions-how-your-money-was-spent\/\" title=\"APA&#8217;s Political Contributions  (How your money was spent)\">[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[86],"tags":[18],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}