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Conservatism is not the missing viewpoint for true diversity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2015

Beate Seibt ,
Sven Waldzus ,
Thomas W. Schubert  and
Rodrigo Brito
Beate Seibt
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway. beateseibt@gmail.comschubert@igroup.orghttp://www.igroup.org/seibt/http://www.igroup.org/schubert/
Sven Waldzus
Affiliation:
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIS-IUL, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal. sven.waldzus@iscte.pthttp://www.cis.iscte-iul.pt/People.aspx?id=61
Thomas W. Schubert
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway. beateseibt@gmail.comschubert@igroup.orghttp://www.igroup.org/seibt/http://www.igroup.org/schubert/
Rodrigo Brito
Affiliation:
COPELABS, Lusófona University, 1749-024 Lisbon, Portugal. rodrigoreisbrito@gmail.comhttp://copelabs.ulusofona.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=209
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Abstract

The target article diagnoses a dominance of liberal viewpoints with little evidence, promotes a conservative viewpoint without defining it, and wrongly projects the U.S. liberal-conservative spectrum to the whole field of social psychology. Instead, we propose to anticipate and reduce mixing of theorizing and ideology by using definitions that acknowledge divergence in perspective, and promote representative sampling and observation of the field, as well as dialogical publication.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e157
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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