JPA Rules on Conflicts of Interest(Purpose)
Article 1
The purpose of these Rules is to facilitate the Japanese Psychological Association (hereinafterreferred to as “JPA”) to achieve social accountability, to appropriately promote industry-academia
collaboration through proper conflicts of interest (COI) management, to promote scientific and fairresearch, and to share the results of such research with society, by ensuring transparency of COI status
in the activities of the JPA Board of Directors and in every presentation or publication in JPA’s
academic conferences or journals.
(Subject persons)
Article 2
Persons subject to the COI management under these Rules (hereinafter referred to as the “SubjectPersons”) shall be as listed below.
(i) JPA officers (i.e., President, Executive directors, Directors, and Auditors), the chair of theannual convention, the executive editors and the chief editors of the editorial boards of theJapanese Journal of Psychology and Japanese Psychological Research, and the executive editor ofPsychology World.
(ii) JPA administrative staff members.
(iii) Persons who give presentations at JPA meetings including the annual convention and symposia.
(iv) Contributors to the Japanese Journal of Psychology and Japanese Psychological Research.
(v) Authors for Psychology World.
(Covered activities)
Article 3
These Rules shall apply to the following business activities conducted by JPA.
(i) Holding of meetings including research workshops and lectures.
(ii) Publication of academic journals, research reports, and other materials.
(iii) Implementation of research and investigation.
(iv) Academic research cooperation with academic societies in Japan.
(v) International academic research cooperation.
(vi) Encouragement of research and recognition of research achievements.
(vii) Approval of qualifications and training.
(viii) Other business activities necessary to achieve the purpose stated above.
(Definitions)
Article 4
The term “Conflict(s) of Interest” or “COI” as used in these rules means any situation in which somepersonal financial interest obtained by a Subject Person prescribed in Article 2 from any companies,profit-making organizations, or the like being contradictory to or incompatible with the activitiesprescribed in Article 3. The specific criteria for determination of the presence of COI are as follows:(i) The Subject Person is an officer, advisor, or employee of a company, organization, or otherentity and annually receives remunerations from a single company or organization totaling one
million yen or more.
(ii) The Subject Person annually earns one million yen or more in total from stockholding (the sumof dividends and profit on sale) from a single company, or holds 5% or more of all shares of asingle company.
(iii) The Subject Person receives patent royalties from companies and/or profit-making
organizations totaling one million yen or more.
(iv) The Subject Person annually receives remunerations, including per-diem allowances and lecturefees, paid by a single company or profit-making organization totaling a half million yen or more.
(v) The Subject Person annually receives manuscript fees for publications, including brochures,from companies or profit-making organizations totaling one million yen or more.
(vi) The Subject Person conducts a research project funded by companies or profit-making groups
with support totaling two million yen or more for the single research project.
(vii) The department (course, field, laboratory, or other unit) to which the Subject Person belongs
and which accepts a portion of a scholarship donation from a single company or profit-makingorganization annually receives payments totaling two million yen or more from the donatingcompany or profit-making organization.
(viii) The Subject Person belongs to any endowed course provided by a company or any otherentities.
(ix) The Subject Person annually receives other remuneration (remuneration including travel andgifts which are not directly related to the Subject Person’s research activities) totaling 100,000
yen or more.
(Establishment and role of the Committee on COI)
Article 5
In order to achieve the purpose described in Article 1, a COI Committee (hereinafter referred to as
the “Committee”) shall be established in JPA.

(2) The composition and the term of office of the Committee members shall be specified separately.
(3) The Committee shall deliberate on the following topics.
(i) Matters where COI status is called into question.
(ii) Matters where inadequate COI declaration is called into question, including a failure ofdeclaration.
(iii) Matters that are proposed by officers or equivalent.
(iv) Matters that are proposed by executive editors.
(v) In addition to the topics cited in the preceding items, important matters regarding COI.
(4) The Committee may conduct interviews and other investigations to determine the COI status of theperson concerned.
(5) The Committee Chair shall report the results of the Committee’s deliberations to the JPA President(hereinafter referred to as the “President”).

(Responsibilities of the President)
Article 6
The President shall supervise COI management at JPA. The President shall take appropriate
measures for proper COI management upon deliberation of the Board of Executive directors.
(Responsibilities of officers)
Article 7
The JPA officers (President, Executive directors, Directors, and Auditors), the executive editors of
the editorial boards of the Japanese Journal of Psychology, Japanese Psychological Research, andPsychology World, the chair of the annual convention of the relevant year, and the administrative staff
members (i.e., persons that fall under (i) and (ii) of Article 2) shall declare their COI status to thePresident by the prescribed method at the time of assuming office, if they meet any of the Article 4
criteria during the year before they assume their positions. In addition, if any new COI status arises
after assuming office, the officer shall amend his/her declarations.
(Responsibilities of presenters）
Article 8
When giving presentations at JPA meetings, including the annual convention, lectures, andsymposiums, or when giving presentations using JPA’s name, the member shall correctly declare theCOI status concerning the implementation of the relevant research by the prescribed method andfollow the instructions of the persons in charge (the chair of the annual convention, the Executive
director in charge, or other relevant persons). If the organization that the concerned person belongs to
is different from the organization for which the person conducts research, the names of bothorganizations shall be specified.
(Responsibilities of the convention chair or equivalent)
Article 9
The person responsible for JPA’s annual convention (i.e., the convention chair or the equivalent ifany) shall verify any concerns about violations of these Rules related to research presentations, if any. Ifa violation is confirmed, the person shall take corrective measures such as instructing the presenter torewrite the contents of his/her presentation or prohibiting/cancelling the presentation with theconfirmed violation.
(2) In such a case, the relevant presenter shall be promptly notified to that effect with the reasons
thereof.
(3) The person responsible for the annual convention prescribed above shall report to the Committee
when such measures are taken.
(Responsibilities of contributors to The Japanese Journal of Psychology and Japanese PsychologicalResearch)
Article 10

Persons who contribute to the Japanese Journal of Psychology or Japanese Psychological Researchshall declare their COI status concerning the implementation of the relevant research by the prescribedmethod and follow the instructions of the concerned executive editor of the editorial board.
(Responsibilities of the executive editor of the editorial board)
Article 11
The editorial board executive editor shall verify any concerns regarding violations of these Rules
related to publication of research, if any. If a violation is confirmed, the executive editor shall takemeasures such as instructing the contributor to rewrite his/her COI status or prohibiting publication ofthe article with the confirmed violation.
(2) In such a case, the relevant contributor shall be promptly notified to that effect with the reasons
thereof.
(3) If any article turns out to violate these rules after publishing, that information shall be announced in
the relevant publication in the name of the executive editor and measures such as cancellation of thearticle shall be taken.
(4) The executive editor shall report to the Committee when such measures are taken.
(Responsibilities of authors and other contributors)
Article 12Authors, creators, and other contributors of articles requested by JPA to be published in its media
including Psychology World, JPA web pages, and the Psychology Museum shall declare their COIstatus concerning the article content by the prescribed method and follow the instructions of therelevant editorial board executive editor or the Executive director in charge.
(Responsibilities of Executive directors)
Article 13
The Executive directors shall verify that JPA business in which each Executive director is involved iscarried out in compliance with these Rules. If any violation of these Rules is confirmed, the Executivedirectors shall promptly consider corrective measures to rectify the situation.
(2) In such a case, those who are involved with the violation shall be promptly notified to that effectwith the reasons thereof.
(3) The person responsible for the business with the confirmed violation shall report to the Committee
when such measures are taken.
(Measures against violators)
Article 14
The President may, if he/she determines that there is a serious violation as a result of deliberations
by the Board of Executive directors upon reports from the Committee, take all or part of the following
measures for a certain period of time, depending on the extent of the violation.
(i) Prohibition of presentations at all lectures held by JPA.
(ii) Prohibition or cancellation of publication of articles by JPA publications.

(iii) Prohibition on assumption of office, or suspension or dismissal from any of the following
positions: JPA officers (President, Executive directors, Directors, and Auditors), the executive
editors of the editorial board of the Japanese Journal of Psychology, Japanese PsychologicalResearch or Psychology World, and the chair of the annual convention of the relevant year.
(iv) Suspension of attendance to JPA meetings including Board of Directors’ and committee
meetings.
(v) Suspension, expulsion, or prohibition of admission to the JPA membership.
(Petition of objection)
Article 15
Persons subject to any of measures prescribed above may file an objection with the JPA. On
receiving such objection, the President shall promptly establish a judging committee (an ad hocadvisory committee) and leave the judgement to the committee. The President will notify the petitionerof the results after deliberation of the review results reported by the Committee at a Board of Executive
directors meeting.
（Achievement of social accountability）
Article 16
When having determined that there is a serious violation of these Rules, after deliberation by theBoard of Executive directors, JPA shall promptly disclose such violation in order to fulfill its
accountability to the public.
(Establishment of detailed rules)
Article 17
JPA may establish detailed rules necessary for the implementation of these Rules.
(Amendment of rules)
Article 18
These Rules may be amended after deliberation by the Board of Executive directors.
Supplementary Provisions
These Rules are established on January 23rd, 2021 and are effective as of April 1st, 2021.