Conservatism is not the missing viewpoint for true diversity.

نویسندگان

  • Beate Seibt
  • Sven Waldzus
  • Thomas W Schubert
  • Rodrigo Brito
چکیده

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.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Behavioral and brain sciences

دوره 38  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015