title: It may be harder than we thought, but political diversity will (still) improve social psychological science.
abstract: In our target article, we made four claims: (1) Social psychology is now politically homogeneous; (2) this homogeneity sometimes harms the science; (3) increasing political diversity would reduce this damage; and (4) some portion of the homogeneity is due to a hostile climate and outright discrimination against non-liberals. In this response, we review these claims in light of the arguments made by a diverse group of commentators. We were surprised to find near-universal agreement with our first two claims, and we note that few challenged our fourth claim. Most of the disagreements came in response to our claim that increasing political diversity would be beneficial. We agree with our critics that increasing political diversity may be harder than we had thought, but we explain why we still believe that it is possible and desirable to do so. We conclude with a revised list of 12 recommendations for improving political diversity in social psychology, as well as in other areas of the academy.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department,The College of New Jersey,Ewing,NJ 08628.crawford@tcnj.eduhttp://crawford.pages.tcnj.edu/
authors.forename: Jarret T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Crawford
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,Arizona State University,Tempe,AZ 85287.jlduarte@asu.eduhttp://joseduarte.com.
authors.forename: José L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Duarte
authors.affiliation: Stern School of Business,New York University,New York,NY 10012.haidt@nyu.eduhttp://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haid.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haidt
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,Rutgers University,New Brunswick,NJ 08901.jussim@rci.rutgers.eduwww.rci.rutgers.edu/~jussim/
authors.forename: Lee
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jussim
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology,Institute for Social Research,Stockholm University,SE-10691 Stockholm,Sweden.lotta.stern@sofi.su.sehttp://www2.sofi.su.se/~lst/
authors.forename: Charlotta
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stern
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department,Wharton School,University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia,PA 19104.tetlock@wharton.upenn.eduhttp://www.sas.upenn.edu/tetlock/
authors.forename: Philip E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Tetlock
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012586:Science; D012942:Social Sciences; D013850:Thinking