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Presidential Address of the Society for Research and Action, delivered at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, August 1993 in Toronto, Canada. The author thanks Guillermo Bernal and Carlos I. Gorrín Peralta for their thoughtful and incisive comments on previous drafts of this presentation.

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Serrano-García, I. The ethics of the powerful and the power of ethics. Am J Commun Psychol 22, 1–20 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02506813

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