title: Should social psychologists create a disciplinary affirmative action program for political conservatives?
abstract: Freely staying on the move between alternative points of view is the best antidote to dogmatism. Robert Merton's ideals for an epistemic community are sufficient to correct pseudo-empirical studies designed to confirm beliefs that liberals (or conservatives) think deserve to be true. Institutionalizing the self-proclaimed political identities of social psychologists may make things worse.
authors.affiliation: Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637. rshd@uchicago.edu https://humdev.uchicago.edu/directory/richard-shweder
authors.forename: Richard A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Shweder
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D011057:Politics; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D013850:Thinking