An Insufficiently Substantiated Claim Based on a Confirmation Strategy: Comment on Bartels’ “Indoctrination in Introduction to Psychology”

In his target article on “Indoctrination in Introduction to Psychology,” Bartels proposes that introductory textbooks of psychology studies and their results are systematically presented such a way they tend correspond left-liberal political positions the state psychological knowledge is reflected correspondingly distorted way. our commentary, we clarify evidence presents for this claim insufficient. At first, he takes purely hypothesis-confirming approach based selective sampling. Second, draws an invalid causal inference from supposed liberal majority community representation content textbooks. And third, assigns function believe do not have. Nonetheless, welcome discussion how best teach critical reflective thinking courses.