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Political Diversity in Social and Personality PsychologyYoel InbarUniversity of Toronto Joris LammersTilburg University February 10, 2012 Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 496-503. Abstract: A lack of political diversity in psychology is said to lead to a number of pernicious outcomes, including biased research and active discrimination against conservatives. The authors surveyed a large number (combined N = 800) of social and personality psychologists and discovered several interesting facts. First, although only 6% described themselves as conservative "overall," there was more diversity of political opinion on economic issues and foreign policy. Second, respondents significantly underestimated the proportion of conservatives among their colleagues. Third, conservatives fear negative consequences of revealing their political beliefs to their colleagues. Finally, conservatives are right to do so: In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists said that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues. The more liberal respondents were, the more they said they would discriminate.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 29 Date posted: February 10, 2012 ; Last revised: October 25, 2012Suggested Citation |
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