Accounting Psychology: What Mounting Calls For Accountability Should Mean For All Of Us

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. Barbara S. Held is Barry N. Wish professor of psychology and social studies emerita at Bowdoin College. The word “accountability” pops up frequently these days — with calls to hold to account those responsible for police misconduct, frozen Texans, the Capitol insurrection, lives lost needlessly to COVID, families separated at the border.