Jarret T. Crawford (editor) - Politics of Social Psychology

THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Social scientists have long known that political beliefs bias the way they think about, understand, and interpret the world around them. In this volume, scholars from social psychology and related fields explore the ways in which social scientists themselves have allowed their own political biases to influence their research. These biases may influence the development of research hypotheses, the design of studies and methods and materials chosen to test hypotheses, decisions to publish or not publish results based on their consistency with ones prior political beliefs, and how results are described and dissemination to the popular press. The fact that these processes occur within academic disciplines, such as social psychology, that strongly skew to the political left compounds the problem. Contributors to this volume not only identify and document the ways that social psychologists political beliefs can and have influenced research, but also offer solutions towards a more depoliticized social psychology that can become a model for discourse across the social sciences.

Jarret T. Crawford is a Professor of Psychology at The College of New Jersey. He is the author of over 50 publications on political psychology and intergroup attitudes.

Lee Jussim is a Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University. He has authored or edited six books and over 100 articles and chapters, focusing primarily on social perception and scientific integrity.

Frontiers of Social Psychology

Series Editors:

Arie W. Kruglanski, University of Maryland at College Park Joseph P. Forgas, University of New South Wales

Frontiers of Social Psychology is a series of domain-specific handbooks. Each volume provides readers with an overview of the most recent theoretical, methodological, and practical developments in a substantive area of social psychology, in greater depth than is possible in general social psychology handbooks. The editors and contributors are all internationally renowned scholars whose work is at the cutting edge of research.

Scholarly, yet accessible, the volumes in the Frontiers series are an essential resource for senior undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, and practitioners and are suitable as texts in advanced courses in specific subareas of social psychology.

Published Titles

Goal-directed Behavior
Aarts & Elliot

Social Judgment and Decision Making
Krueger

Intergroup Conflicts and their Resolution
Bar-Tal

Social Motivation
Dunning

Social Cognition
Strack & Frster

Social Psychology of Consumer Behavior
Wnke

Computational Social Psychology
Vallacher, Read, & Nowak

Forthcoming Titles

For continually updated information about published and forthcoming titles in the Frontiers of Social Psychology series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/psychology/series/FSP

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Crawford, Jarret T., editor. | Jussim, Lee J., editor.
Title: The politics of social psychology / Jarret T. Crawford and Lee Jussim, editors.
Description: NewYork, NY: Routledge, 2017. | Series: Frontiers of social psychology
Identifiers: LCCN 2017009846 | ISBN 9781138930599 (hardback: alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138930605 (pbk.: alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315112619 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Social psychologyPolitical aspects.
Classification: LCC HM1033 .P654 2017 | DDC 302dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017009846

ISBN: 978-1-138-93059-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-93060-5 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-11261-9 (ebk)

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Blanton, Hart, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut

Brandt, Mark J., Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg University

Buss, David M., Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin

Campbell, W. Keith, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia

Ceci, Stephen J., Department of Human Development, Cornell University

Contrada, Richard, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University

Crawford, Jarret T., Psychology Department, The College of New Jersey

Duarte, Jose, Psychology Department, University of Arizona

Edlund, John, Department of Psychology, Rochester Institute of Technology

Holzer, Nissan, Yeshiva University

Ikizer, Elif G., Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut

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