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Should social psychologists create a disciplinary affirmative action program for political conservatives?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2015

Richard A. Shweder
Richard A. Shweder*
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Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637. rshd@uchicago.edu https://humdev.uchicago.edu/directory/richard-shweder
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Abstract

Freely staying on the move between alternative points of view is the best antidote to dogmatism. Robert Merton's ideals for an epistemic community are sufficient to correct pseudo-empirical studies designed to confirm beliefs that liberals (or conservatives) think deserve to be true. Institutionalizing the self-proclaimed political identities of social psychologists may make things worse.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e158
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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