title: A checklist to facilitate objective hypothesis testing in social psychology research.
abstract: Social psychology is not a very politically diverse area of inquiry, something that could negatively affect the objectivity of social psychological theory and research, as Duarte et al. argue in the target article. This commentary offers a number of checks to help researchers uncover possible biases and identify when they are engaging in hypothesis confirmation and advocacy instead of hypothesis testing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607. awashbu1@uic.edu  http://anwashburn.wordpress.com 
authors.forename: Anthony N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Washburn
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, Drew University, Madison, NJ 07940. smorgan@drew.edu https://sites.google.com/site/gscottmorgan3
authors.forename: G Scott
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607. lskitka@uic.edu  http://tigger.uic.edu/~lskitka
authors.forename: Linda J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Skitka
mesh_terms: D057189:Checklist; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011584:Psychology; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012107:Research Design