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      Political Diversity in Social and Personality Psychology

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      Perspectives on Psychological Science
      SAGE Publications

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          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. 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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                Journal
                Perspectives on Psychological Science
                Perspect Psychol Sci
                SAGE Publications
                1745-6916
                1745-6924
                September 05 2012
                September 2012
                September 05 2012
                September 2012
                : 7
                : 5
                : 496-503
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
                Article
                10.1177/1745691612448792
                26168506
                378275cb-0b6e-4382-8161-4189268ff5ad
                © 2012

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