title: Sociopolitical insularity is psychology's Achilles heel.
abstract: Academic psychology has become increasingly non-diverse politically, which skews and impedes social psychological science (as Duarte et al. argue). We should embrace viewpoint diversity, especially since the arguments favoring sociopolitical diversity are identical to those for demographic and cultural diversity. Doing so will produce a more robust, open, and creative psychological science that is informed and tested by a multiplicity of sociopolitical paradigms.
authors.affiliation: Fowler School of Law;Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences;Department of Psychology;and College of Educational Studies,Chapman University,Orange,CA 92866.redding@chapman.eduhttp://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/richard-redding.
authors.forename: Richard E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Redding
mesh_terms: D018864:Cultural Diversity; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D011584:Psychology; D012586:Science