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Welcoming conservatives to the field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2015

Richard Nisbett*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. [email protected]://www-personal.umich.edu/~nisbett/

Abstract

More conservatives would provide advantages, and social psychologists may not be as opposed to increasing the number of conservatives as Duarte et al. think. Recruitment problems concern primarily self-selection and biases in undergraduate instruction. Social psychologists should welcome having conservatives in the field to serve as a conduit for our theories and methods to conservative intellectuals and policy makers.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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