Tag: John Jost

  • Is social psychology self-correcting?

    I have a new essay up at Heterodox Academy discussing the claim that science is self-correcting. I also dig a bit more into what we mean by “bias”. As a reminder, Heterodox Academy is a motley crew of scholars concerned about ideological conformity and intolerance in modern academia. We’re privileged to have Jon Haidt, Steven…

  • Ideologically-fueled research

    In my comment on Piercarlo Valdesolo’s excellent Scientific American guest column on our paper, I wrote up some points that deserve separate post. I’ll expand on these issues in journal publications. Some people come into social psychology with a political agenda – their research and careers are driven by left-wing ideology. A common pattern is…