Department of Psychology,Harvard University,Cambridge,MA
Behav Brain Sci. 2015;38:e154. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X1400137X.
Political bias has indeed been a distorter of psychology, not just in particular research areas but in an aversion to the explanatory depth available from politically fraught fields like evolution. I add two friendly amendments to the target article: (1) The leftist moral narrative may be based on zero-sum competition among identity groups rather than continuous progress; and (2) ideological bias should be dealt with not just via diversity of ideological factions but by minimizing the influence of ideology altogether.
政治偏见确实扭曲了心理学,不仅在某些特定的研究领域如此,而且还导致人们回避像进化这样充满政治争议的领域所提供的解释深度。我对目标文章提出两点友好的修正意见:(1)左派的道德叙事可能基于身份群体之间的零和竞争,而不是持续进步;(2)思想偏见不仅应通过思想派别的多样性来解决,而且应尽量减少思想的影响。