Sociopolitical Insularity is Psychology's Achilles Heal

Abstract

Academic psychology has become increasingly non-diverse politically, which skews and impeded social psychological science (as Duarte et al. argue). We should embrace viewpoint diversity, especially since the arguments favoring sociopolitical diversity are identical to those for demographic and cultural diversity. Doing so will produce a more robust, open, and creative psychological science that is informed and tested by a multiplicity of socio political paradigms.

Keywords: sociopolitical diversity, sociopolitical values, demographic diversity, cultural diversity, psychology, higher education