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Is liberal bias universal? An international perspective on social psychologists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2015

Michal Bilewicz ,
Aleksandra Cichocka ,
Paulina Górska  and
Zsolt Péter Szabó
Michal Bilewicz
Affiliation:
Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland. bilewicz@psych.uw.edu.pl http://cbu.psychologia.pl/ paulina.gorska@psych.uw.edu.pl
Aleksandra Cichocka
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Keynes College, University of Kent Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NP, United Kingdom. a.k.cichocka@kent.ac.uk
Paulina Górska
Affiliation:
Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland. bilewicz@psych.uw.edu.pl http://cbu.psychologia.pl/ paulina.gorska@psych.uw.edu.pl
Zsolt Péter Szabó
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychology, University of Pecs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary. szabo.zsolt.peter@pte.hu
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Abstract

Based on our comparison of political orientation and research interests of social psychologists in capitalist Western countries versus post-Communist Eastern European countries, we suggest that Duarte and colleagues' claim of liberal bias in the field seems American-centric. We propose an alternative account of political biases which focuses on the academic tendency to explain attitudes of lower status groups.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e134
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