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Towards a de-biased social psychology: The effects of ideological perspective go beyond politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2015

David C. Funder
David C. Funder*
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Department of Psychology, University of California–Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521. funder@ucr.edu http://rap.ucr.edu/
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Abstract

Reasonable conservatives are in short supply and will not arrive to save social psychology any time soon. The field needs to save itself through de-biasing. The effects of a liberal worldview permeate and distort discussion of many topics that are not overtly political, including behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology, the fundamental attribution error, and the remarkably persistent consistency controversy.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e143
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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