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Liberal bias and the five-factor model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2015

Evan Charney*
Affiliation:
Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708. echar@duke.edu http://sites.duke.edu/evancharney/

Abstract

Duarte et al. draw attention to the “embedding of liberal values and methods” in social psychological research. They note how these biases are often invisible to the researchers themselves. The authors themselves fall prey to these “invisible biases” by utilizing the five-factor model of personality and the trait of openness to experience as one possible explanation for the under-representation of political conservatives in social psychology. I show that the manner in which the trait of openness to experience is conceptualized and measured is a particularly blatant example of the very liberal bias the authors decry.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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