Diversity in Social and Personality Psychology Yoel Inbar and Joris Lammers – Ti

http://yoelinbar.net/papers/political_diversity.pdfPolitical Diversity in Social and Personality Psychology

Yoel Inbar and Joris Lammers – Tilburg University

—“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 of this study 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”—