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Prof. Jonathan Haidt's research on the lack of political diversity in social psychology is featured
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Excerpt from The New Yorker -- "The topics that social psychologists chose to study and how they chose to study them, he argued, suffered from homogeneity. The effect was limited, Haidt was quick to point out, to areas that concerned political ideology and politicized notions, like race, gender, stereotyping, and power and inequality. 'It’s not like the whole field is undercut, but when it comes to research on controversial topics, the effect is most pronounced,' he later told me. (Haidt has now put his remarks in more formal terms, complete with data, in a paper forthcoming this winter in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.)"
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