Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-j824f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-15T03:29:39.592Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A conservative's social psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2015

Clark McCauley
Clark McCauley*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010. cmccaule@brynmawr.eduhttp://www.brynmawr.edu/psychology/McCauley1.html
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

I suggest that social psychologists should stick to studying positive and negative attitudes and give up stigmatizing some attitudes as “prejudice.” I recommend that we avoid assuming that race and ethnicity have no biological foundations, in order to avoid a collision course with modern biology. And I wonder how much difference the target article recommendations can make in the context of hiring a social psychologist for an academic position.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e150
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Burchard, E. G., Ziv, E., Coyle, N., Gomez, S. L., Tang, H., Karter, A. J., Mountain, J. L., Pérez-Stable, E. J., Sheppard, D. & Risch, N. (2003) The importance of race and ethnic background in biomedical research and clinical practice. New England Journal of Medicine 348:1170–75.Google Scholar
Lewontin, R. C. (2006) Confusions about human races. In: Is Race “Real”? [Web Forum, Social Science Research Council, June 7, 2006]. Available at: http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Lewontin/.Google Scholar
Rosenberg, N. A., Pritchard, J. K., Weber, J. L., Cann, H. M., Kidd, K. K., Zhivotovsky, L. A. & Feldman, M. W. (2002) Genetic structure of human populations. Science 298(5602):2381–85.Google Scholar
Wade, N. (2003) 2 Scholarly articles diverge on role of race in medicine. New York Times, March 20, 2003, Section A, p. 30.Google Scholar
Walsh, S., Liu, F., Wollstein, A., Kovatsi, L., Ralf, A., Kosiniak-Kamysz, A., Branicki, W. & Kayser, M. (2013) The HIrisPlex system for simultaneous prediction of hair and eye colour from DNA. Forensic Science International: Genetics 7(1):98–115.Google Scholar