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Political bias is tenacious

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2015

Peter H. Ditto ,
Sean P. Wojcik ,
Eric Evan Chen ,
Rebecca Hofstein Grady  and
Megan M. Ringel
Peter H. Ditto
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California–Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-7085. phditto@uci.edu swojcik@uci.edu chene5@uci.edu grady.becky@gmail.com mringel@uci.edu http://socialecology.uci.edu/faculty/phditto www.seanwojcik.com http://gradyr.weebly.com/
Sean P. Wojcik
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California–Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-7085. phditto@uci.edu swojcik@uci.edu chene5@uci.edu grady.becky@gmail.com mringel@uci.edu http://socialecology.uci.edu/faculty/phditto www.seanwojcik.com http://gradyr.weebly.com/
Eric Evan Chen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California–Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-7085. phditto@uci.edu swojcik@uci.edu chene5@uci.edu grady.becky@gmail.com mringel@uci.edu http://socialecology.uci.edu/faculty/phditto www.seanwojcik.com http://gradyr.weebly.com/
Rebecca Hofstein Grady
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California–Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-7085. phditto@uci.edu swojcik@uci.edu chene5@uci.edu grady.becky@gmail.com mringel@uci.edu http://socialecology.uci.edu/faculty/phditto www.seanwojcik.com http://gradyr.weebly.com/
Megan M. Ringel
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California–Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-7085. phditto@uci.edu swojcik@uci.edu chene5@uci.edu grady.becky@gmail.com mringel@uci.edu http://socialecology.uci.edu/faculty/phditto www.seanwojcik.com http://gradyr.weebly.com/
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Abstract

Duarte et al. are right to worry about political bias in social psychology but they underestimate the ease of correcting it. Both liberals and conservatives show partisan bias that often worsens with cognitive sophistication. More non-liberals in social psychology is unlikely to speed our convergence upon the truth, although it may broaden the questions we ask and the data we collect.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e140
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