An argument for egalitarian confirmation bias and against political diversity in academia
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02846-2
Abstract: It has recently been suggested that politically motivated cognition leads progressive individuals (e.g., liberals) to form beliefs that underestimate real differences between social groups (e.g., in academic performance) and to process information selectively to support… read more here.
Keywords: diversity academia; confirmation bias; egalitarian confirmation;