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Social Psychologists Ponder Their Own Political Biases
February 8, 2011, 2:30 pm
Social psychologists have become engrossed by debates about political biases in their own ranks, according to John Tierney’s column in today’s New York Times. At last month’s meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the University of Virginia’s Jonathan Haidt asked a ballroom full of roughly 1,000 scholars to raise their hands to identify themselves politically. Only three confessed to being conservative. Mr. Haidt described that as a “statistically impossible lack of diversity” and urged the field to set a goal of at least a 10-percent conservative membership by 2020.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/social-psychologists-ponder-their-own-political-biases/30310?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
February 8, 2011, 2:30 pm
Social psychologists have become engrossed by debates about political biases in their own ranks, according to John Tierney’s column in today’s New York Times. At last month’s meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the University of Virginia’s Jonathan Haidt asked a ballroom full of roughly 1,000 scholars to raise their hands to identify themselves politically. Only three confessed to being conservative. Mr. Haidt described that as a “statistically impossible lack of diversity” and urged the field to set a goal of at least a 10-percent conservative membership by 2020.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/social-psychologists-ponder-their-own-political-biases/30310?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en