Political bias is tenacious.

Behav Brain Sci

Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-7085.

Published: August 2016

Duarte et al. are right to worry about political bias in social psychology but they underestimate the ease of correcting it. Both liberals and conservatives show partisan bias that often worsens with cognitive sophistication. More non-liberals in social psychology is unlikely to speed our convergence upon the truth, although it may broaden the questions we ask and the data we collect.

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