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Political Diversity in Social and Personality Psychology
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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. We 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, they 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.
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- Authors
- Inbar, Y., & Lammers, J.
- Venue
- Perspectives on Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2012-09
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 496-503
- ISSN
- 1745-6916 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-6924
- OpenAlex
- W3125724058
- Cited by
- 359
- References
- 22
- FWCI
- 130.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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