Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences
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description: The Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences (JOIBS) is the official publication of the Society for Open Inquiry in Behavioral Science. Dedicated to fostering intellectual exchange and upholding the highest standards of scholarly rigor, the journal provides a platform for the dissemination of empirical research across all domains of behavioral science, broadly defined. The journal exclusively publishes empirical studies and commentaries on these studies. Submissions are welcomed on a rolling basis, ensuring continuous opportunities for scholars to contribute and engage.
publisher: SOIBS
language: en
publication name: Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences
issn: 2992-9253
items: The Tao: A Philosophical Explanation for Mental Health? Commentary on Hu & Kirkegaard (2026)
items: Review of Hu & Kirkegaard (2026) II
items: Review of Hu & Kirkegaard (2026) I
items: Left-Wing Ideology, Mental Health and Body Modifications
items: Review of Grawitch et al. (2025) II
items: Review of Grawitch et al. (2025) I
items: Decision-Making in Ambiguous Situations: The Impact of Neosexism and Gendered Settings
items: Review of Rohrer (2025) II
items: Review of Rohrer (2025) I
items: A Dramatic Underestimate of the Performance Gap Between Elite Male and Female Athletes
items: Review of ‘Perceived Effectiveness and Risk of Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE): Perspectives of a US Sample of 125 Male Clients’
items: Review of “Perceived Effectiveness and Risk of Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE): Perspectives of a US Sample of 125 Male Clients”
items: Perceived Effectiveness and Risk of Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE): Perspectives of a US Sample of 125 Male Clients
items: Review of Conway & Houck (2025)
items: Can Liberals Also Be Authoritarians? Comment on Conway & Houck (2025)
items: Ideologically Incongruent Authoritarianism: Understanding Liberal Right-Wing Authoritarians and Conservative Left-Wing Authoritarians
items: Review of Negy & Ferguson (2025): “Predicting Radical Progressive Ideology (RPI) from Personality and Attitudinal Variables”
items: The (De)merits of Radical Progressivism: Commentary on Negy & Ferguson (2025)
items: Uncomfortable Truths in the Science of Sex Differences: Review of Bleske-Rechek et al. (2024)
items: Women’s Stronger In-group Favoritism Underlies Their Censorship of Science: Review of Bleske-Rechek et al. (2024)
items: Predicting Radical Progressive Ideology (RPI)
items: Review of Woessner & Maranto (2025)
items: Commentary: Do Gradebooks Lean Left? Relationships between Grades andIdeology in American Higher Education
items: Do Gradebooks Lean Left?
items: Review of Martin et al. (2024) II
items: Review of Martin et al. (2024)
items: Psychosocial development is negatively correlated with political extremism
items: Review of Lauritsen (2024) II
items: Review of Lauritsen (2024)
items: Schein (1973) Revisited: The Think Manager-Think Male Effect is a Statistical Artifact

The Tao: A Philosophical Explanation for Mental Health? Commentary on Hu & Kirkegaard (2026)
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: political orientation, mental health, body modification, measurement invariance, IRT, DIF, MCV Review of Hu & Kirkegaard (2026) III
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: political orientation
  topic: keywords
subject: mental health
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subject: body modification
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subject: measurement invariance
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subject: IRT
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subject: DIF
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subject: MCV
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creator: Nina Silander
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Nina C. Silander (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-04-19
publication date: 2026-04-19
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2026.05.01.0004

Review of Hu & Kirkegaard (2026) II
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: political orientation, mental health, body modification, measurement invariance, IRT, DIF, MCV Review of Hu & Kirkegaard (2026) II
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: political orientation
  topic: keywords
subject: mental health
  topic: keywords
subject: body modification
  topic: keywords
subject: measurement invariance
  topic: keywords
subject: IRT
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subject: DIF
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subject: MCV
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creator: Richard Redding
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Richard Redding (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-04-19
publication date: 2026-04-19
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2026.05.01.0003

Review of Hu & Kirkegaard (2026) I
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: political orientation, mental health, body modification, measurement invariance, IRT, DIF, MCV Review of Hu & Kirkegaard (2026) I
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: political orientation
  topic: keywords
subject: mental health
  topic: keywords
subject: body modification
  topic: keywords
subject: measurement invariance
  topic: keywords
subject: IRT
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subject: DIF
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subject: MCV
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creator: Andrew Hartz
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Andrew Hartz (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-04-19
publication date: 2026-04-19
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2026.05.01.0002

Left-Wing Ideology, Mental Health and Body Modifications
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: political orientation, mental health, body modification, measurement invariance, IRT, DIF, MCV Recent research has identified a recurring association between left-wing political ideology and poorer mental health. These findings show both reduced positive well-being (e.g., life satisfaction) and increased negative symptoms (e.g., depression, anxiety). We administered 76 mental health and 41 political ideology items to a sample of 978 fairly representative American adults recruited via the Prolific data platform. Overall, we found that every aspect of mental health correlated negatively with overall leftism (r’s for 18 diagnoses = -0.20, last 2 weeks symptoms = -0.14, MMPI-subset = -0.17, life satisfaction = -0.15, all p’s < .001). Diagnoses were the primary predictor of leftism in multivariate models. This relationship was not explained by measurement bias, as invariance testing revealed only minimal, counter-balancing item bias. Furthermore, we expanded this network by incorporating behavioral markers, finding that body modifications (e.g., unnatural hair color, tattoos) showed weak-to-modest associations with both left-wing ideology and mental health diagnoses.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: political orientation
  topic: keywords
subject: mental health
  topic: keywords
subject: body modification
  topic: keywords
subject: measurement invariance
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subject: IRT
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subject: DIF
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subject: MCV
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creator: Meng Hu
creator: Emil Kirkegaard
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Meng Hu, Emil O. W. Kirkegaard (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-04-19
publication date: 2026-04-19
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2026.05.01.0001

Review of Grawitch et al. (2025) II
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: Sexism, Neosexism, Biases, Decision Making, Attitudes Review of Grawitch et al. (2025)
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Sexism
  topic: keywords
subject: Neosexism
  topic: keywords
subject: Biases
  topic: keywords
subject: Decision Making
  topic: keywords
subject: Attitudes
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creator: Bo Winegard
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Bo Winegard (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-24
publication date: 2025-12-24
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.06.0003

Review of Grawitch et al. (2025) I
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: Sexism, Neosexism, Biases, Decision Making, Attitudes Review of Grawitch et al. (2025)
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Sexism
  topic: keywords
subject: Neosexism
  topic: keywords
subject: Biases
  topic: keywords
subject: Decision Making
  topic: keywords
subject: Attitudes
  topic: keywords
creator: Maja Graso
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Maja Graso (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-24
publication date: 2025-12-24
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.06.0002

Decision-Making in Ambiguous Situations: The Impact of Neosexism and Gendered Settings
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: Sexism, Neosexism, Biases, Decision Making, Attitudes This study examined how people judge whether an interaction is sexist when the situation is ambiguous. We tested how judgments were influenced by (a) sex composition of the interaction (e.g., male-female, female-female), (b) the setting of the interaction (banking, a traditionally male-typed context vs. daycare, a traditionally female-typed context), and (c) individual attitudes about sexism. Across two scenarios, people rated the behavior as more sexist when a male addressed a female in the banking context. This effect was absent in the daycare context. People who showed more sensitivity to potential sexism were more likely to rate behavior as sexist across both contexts, and this affected how favorable they found the interaction and what advice they gave in response. These findings suggest that both individual beliefs and situational context shape how people interpret potentially biased behavior.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Sexism
  topic: keywords
subject: Neosexism
  topic: keywords
subject: Biases
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subject: Decision Making
  topic: keywords
subject: Attitudes
  topic: keywords
creator: Matthew Grawitch
creator: Kristi Lavigne
creator: Falak Saffaf
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Matthew J. Grawitch, Kristi N. Lavigne, Falak Saffaf (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-24
publication date: 2025-12-24
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.06.0001

Review of Rohrer (2025) II
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: Misconception, Performance, Gap, Sex, Male, Female, Athletics Review of Rohrer (2025)
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Misconception
  topic: keywords
subject: Performance
  topic: keywords
subject: Gap
  topic: keywords
subject: Sex
  topic: keywords
subject: Male
  topic: keywords
subject: Female
  topic: keywords
subject: Athletics
  topic: keywords
creator: April Bleske-Rechek
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 April Bleske-Rechek (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-03
publication date: 2025-11-03
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.05.0003

Review of Rohrer (2025) I
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: Misconception, Performance, Gap, Sex, Male, Female, Athletics Review of Rohrer (2025)
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Misconception
  topic: keywords
subject: Performance
  topic: keywords
subject: Gap
  topic: keywords
subject: Sex
  topic: keywords
subject: Male
  topic: keywords
subject: Female
  topic: keywords
subject: Athletics
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creator: Joachim Krueger
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Joachim Krueger (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-03
publication date: 2025-11-03
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.05.0002

A Dramatic Underestimate of the Performance Gap Between Elite Male and Female Athletes
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: Misconception, Performance, Gap, Sex, Male, Female, Athletics Strong evidence shows that anatomical and physiological sex differences favor men over women in nearly every athletic event, yet several researchers have published widely disseminated claims of an inherent advantage for women in some athletic events. The present study assessed the prevalence of this misconception with a survey of a diverse sample of 300 U.S. adults. For each of four events (1500-m run, 100-m dash, long jump, and 800-m swim), participants were asked, “The world record for professional women is closest to the world record for males of what age?” The correct answer for each event is age 14, yet, for each event, at least 64% of participants responded that the women’s world record is closest to the record for males of age 18 or older (mean and median estimate ≈ age 20). This stark misconception suggests that many people in the U.S. and possibly elsewhere underestimate the contribution of biology to the male-female performance gap in athletics and, by extension, underrate the impact of allowing biological males to compete in female-only sports.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Misconception
  topic: keywords
subject: Performance
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subject: Gap
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subject: Sex
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subject: Male
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subject: Female
  topic: keywords
subject: Athletics
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creator: Doug Rohrer
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Doug Rohrer (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-30
publication date: 2025-11-30
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.05.0001

Review of ‘Perceived Effectiveness and Risk of Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE): Perspectives of a US Sample of 125 Male Clients’
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: Sexual orientation change, psychosocial health, marriage, ex-gay Review II
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Sexual orientation change
  topic: keywords
subject: psychosocial health
  topic: keywords
subject: marriage
  topic: keywords
subject: ex-gay
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creator: Holly Lawford-Smith
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Holly Lawford-Smith (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-09-28
publication date: 2025-09-28
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.04.0002

Review of “Perceived Effectiveness and Risk of Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE): Perspectives of a US Sample of 125 Male Clients”
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: Sexual orientation change, psychosocial health, marriage, ex-gay Review I
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Sexual orientation change
  topic: keywords
subject: psychosocial health
  topic: keywords
subject: marriage
  topic: keywords
subject: ex-gay
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creator: Catherine Salmon
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Catherine Salmon (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-09-28
publication date: 2025-09-28
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.04.0003/

Perceived Effectiveness and Risk of Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE): Perspectives of a US Sample of 125 Male Clients
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: Sexual orientation change, psychosocial health, marriage, ex-gay Background: Voluntary therapeutic interventions to reduce unwanted same-sex sexuality are collectively known as sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE). Currently almost all evidence addressing the contested question whether SOCE is effective or safe consists of anecdotes or very small sample qualitative studies of persons who currently identify as sexual minority and thus by definition failed to change. We conducted this study to examine the perceived effects and risk outcomes for a group of SOCE participants unbiased by current sexual orientation. Methods: We examined a convenience sample of 125 men who had undergone SOCE for homosexual-to-heterosexual change in sexual attraction, identity and behavior, and for positive and negative changes in psychosocial problem domains (depression, suicidality, self-harm, self-esteem, social function, and alcohol or substance abuse). Mean change was assessed by parametric (t-test) and nonparametric (Wilcoxon sign rank test) significance tests. Results: Exposure to SOCE was associated with significant declines in same-sex attraction (from 5.7 to 4.1 on the Kinsey scale, p <.000), identification (4.8 to 3.6, p < .000), and sexual activity (2.4 to 1.5 on a 4-point scale of frequency, p < .000), with large effect sizes ranging from .56 to .94 (Cohen’s d). From 45% to 69% of SOCE participants achieved at least partial reduction of unwanted same-sex sexuality; full reduction was achieved by 14% for sexual attraction and identification, and 26% for sexual behavior. Rates were higher among married men, but 4-10% of participants experienced increased same-sex orientation after SOCE. From 0.8% to 4.8% of participants reported marked or severe negative psychosocial change following SOCE, but 12.1% to 61.3% reported marked or severe positive psychosocial change. Net change was significantly positive for all problem domains. Conclusion: SOCE was pe…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Sexual orientation change
  topic: keywords
subject: psychosocial health
  topic: keywords
subject: marriage
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subject: ex-gay
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creator: D. Paul Sullins
creator: Christopher H. Rosik
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 D. Paul Sullins, Christopher H. Rosik (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-09-28
publication date: 2025-09-28
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.04.0001

Review of Conway & Houck (2025)
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: Authoritarianism, Left-Wing Authoritarianism, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Ideology, Ideologically-Incongruent Review of Conway & Houck (2025)
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Authoritarianism
  topic: keywords
subject: Left-Wing Authoritarianism
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subject: Right-Wing Authoritarianism
  topic: keywords
subject: Ideology
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subject: Ideologically-Incongruent
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creator: Joseph Manson
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Joseph Manson (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-08-12
publication date: 2025-08-12
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.03.0003

Can Liberals Also Be Authoritarians? Comment on Conway & Houck (2025)
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: Authoritarianism, Left-Wing Authoritarianism, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Ideology, Ideologically-Incongruent Review of Conway & Houck (2025)
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Authoritarianism
  topic: keywords
subject: Left-Wing Authoritarianism
  topic: keywords
subject: Right-Wing Authoritarianism
  topic: keywords
subject: Ideology
  topic: keywords
subject: Ideologically-Incongruent
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creator: Richard Redding
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Richard Redding (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-08-12
publication date: 2025-08-12
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.03.0002

Ideologically Incongruent Authoritarianism: Understanding Liberal Right-Wing Authoritarians and Conservative Left-Wing Authoritarians
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: Authoritarianism, Left-Wing Authoritarianism, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Ideology, Ideologically-Incongruent Ideologically incongruent authoritarians – liberal right-wing authoritarians and their counterpart conservative left-wing authoritarians – represent an important yet understudied group. What underlies the incongruence displayed by incongruent authoritarians? We present four conceptual frameworks for understanding this question: Psychological Ambivalence, Rigidity of the Right, Religion-Specific Authoritarianism, and Ecological Threat. We examined each of these frameworks using data from 14 studies and over 9,000 participants. Findings offer modest support for all four frameworks, but no framework on its own comprehensively accounts for incongruent authoritarianism. What is clear, however, is that ideologically incongruent authoritarians in the U.S. comprise a meaningful category with predictable differences from both their fellow non-authoritarian ideologues and their counterpart congruent authoritarians. As such, this work advances our current understanding of authoritarianism, provides unique insight into the psychology of incongruent authoritarians, and contributes to the ongoing asymmetry debate in political ideology.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Authoritarianism
  topic: keywords
subject: Left-Wing Authoritarianism
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subject: Right-Wing Authoritarianism
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subject: Ideology
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subject: Ideologically-Incongruent
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creator: Lucian G. Conway
creator: Shannon C. Houck
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Lucian Gideon Conway III, Shannon C. Houck (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-08-12
publication date: 2025-08-12
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.03.0001

Review of Negy & Ferguson (2025): “Predicting Radical Progressive Ideology (RPI) from Personality and Attitudinal Variables”
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: DEI, Radical Progressive Ideology, Left-Wing Authoritarianism, Anti-White Attitudes, Wokism Review of Negy & Ferguson (2025): “Predicting Radical Progressive Ideology (RPI) from Personality and Attitudinal Variables”
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: DEI
  topic: keywords
subject: Radical Progressive Ideology
  topic: keywords
subject: Left-Wing Authoritarianism
  topic: keywords
subject: Anti-White Attitudes
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subject: Wokism
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creator: Anonymous
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Anonymous (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-08-06
publication date: 2025-08-06
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.02.0002

The (De)merits of Radical Progressivism: Commentary on Negy & Ferguson (2025)
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: DEI, Radical Progressive Ideology, Left-Wing Authoritarianism, Anti-White Attitudes, Wokism Commentary on Negy & Ferguson (2025)
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: DEI
  topic: keywords
subject: Radical Progressive Ideology
  topic: keywords
subject: Left-Wing Authoritarianism
  topic: keywords
subject: Anti-White Attitudes
  topic: keywords
subject: Wokism
  topic: keywords
creator: Sonia Yanovsky
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sonia Yanovsky (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-08-06
publication date: 2025-08-06
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.02.0003

Uncomfortable Truths in the Science of Sex Differences: Review of Bleske-Rechek et al. (2024)
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: sex differences, harm, liberal science, censorship, identity Review of Bleske-Rechek et al. (2024)
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: sex differences
  topic: keywords
subject: harm
  topic: keywords
subject: liberal science
  topic: keywords
subject: censorship
  topic: keywords
subject: identity
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creator: Steve Stewart-Williams
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Steve Stewart-Williams (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-05-08
publication date: 2025-05-08
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2024.02.04.0003

Women’s Stronger In-group Favoritism Underlies Their Censorship of Science: Review of Bleske-Rechek et al. (2024)
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: sex differences, harm, liberal science, censorship, identity Review of Bleske-Rechek et al. (2024)
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: sex differences
  topic: keywords
subject: harm
  topic: keywords
subject: liberal science
  topic: keywords
subject: censorship
  topic: keywords
subject: identity
  topic: keywords
creator: Tania Reynolds
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Tania Reynolds (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-05-08
publication date: 2025-05-08
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2024.02.04.0002

Predicting Radical Progressive Ideology (RPI)
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: DEI, Radical Progressive Ideology, Left-Wing Authoritarianism, Anti-White Attitudes, Wokism Many critics of higher education contend it has become infused with a radical progressive ideology (RPI). Critics of this ideology often focus on “Critical Race Theory” (CRT) and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). Broadly defined, CRT/DEI are a set of beliefs espousing that U.S. and Western societies are based on “white supremacy” and that social inequalities are due to racially-designed barriers to oppress non-Whites. These views are often accompanied by a deemphasis on classically liberal values such as free speech and due process. Advocates of CRT/DEI demand that society become more egalitarian, just, and inclusive. However, many ideas and tenets of CRT/DEI are debatable and are contested by critics due to the ideas’ questionable empirical support. The purpose of this study was to examine select personality and attitudinal variables that may predict endorsement of CRT/DEI ideas that we call “radical progressive ideology” (RPI). Based on a sample of university students, three variables emerged significantly correlating with RPI: left-wing authoritarianism, anti-White attitudes, and anti-U.S. attitudes. Findings suggest that those embracing RPI may hold prejudicial views of Whites and of the U.S. as a country and may be desirous of punishing those not sharing their radical progressive ideology. Additional implications are discussed.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: DEI
  topic: keywords
subject: Radical Progressive Ideology
  topic: keywords
subject: Left-Wing Authoritarianism
  topic: keywords
subject: Anti-White Attitudes
  topic: keywords
subject: Wokism
  topic: keywords
creator: Charles Negy
creator: Christopher J. Ferguson
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Charles Negy, Christopher J. Ferguson (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-05-04
publication date: 2025-05-04
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.02.0001

Review of Woessner & Maranto (2025)
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description: Section: Articles Categories: Titles A to Z Keywords: grading, undergraduate education Review of Woessner & Maranto (2025)
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Titles A to Z
  topic: category
subject: grading
  topic: keywords
subject: undergraduate education
  topic: keywords
creator: George Yancey
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 George Yancey (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-03-01
publication date: 2025-03-01
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.01.0003

Commentary: Do Gradebooks Lean Left? Relationships between Grades andIdeology in American Higher Education
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description: Section: Articles Categories: Titles A to Z Keywords: undergraduate education, grading Review of Woessner & Maranto 2025
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Titles A to Z
  topic: category
subject: undergraduate education
  topic: keywords
subject: grading
  topic: keywords
creator: April Bleske-Rechek
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 April Bleske-Rechek (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-03-01
publication date: 2025-03-01
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.01.0002

Do Gradebooks Lean Left?
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description: Section: Articles Categories: Titles A to Z Keywords: grading, ideology, higher education, undergraduate education, political correctness While considerable quantitative research demonstrates ideological liberalism among American professors, only qualitative work examines whether this affects undergraduate education. Using the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) dataset surveying students in their first and fourth years in college (n=7,207), we use OLS regressions to test whether students’ political beliefs are associated with reported college grades and perceived collegiate experiences. We find that while standardized test scores are the best predictors of grade point average, ideology also has impacts. Even with controls for SES, demographics, and SAT scores, liberal students report higher college grades and closer relationships with faculty, particularly at elite institutions, with findings driven by social issues like abortion. Nevertheless, conservative students consistently show higher levels of satisfaction with college courses and experiences, and higher high school grades. We discuss implications, and possible limitations.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Titles A to Z
  topic: category
subject: grading
  topic: keywords
subject: ideology
  topic: keywords
subject: higher education
  topic: keywords
subject: undergraduate education
  topic: keywords
subject: political correctness
  topic: keywords
creator: Matthew Woessner
creator: Robert Maranto
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Matthew Woessner, Robert Maranto (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-05-01
publication date: 2025-05-01
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2025.04.01.0001

Review of Martin et al. (2024) II
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: Psychosocial development Review of Martin et al. (2024)
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Psychosocial development
  topic: keywords
creator: Harry Crane
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Harry Crane (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-05-01
publication date: 2025-05-01
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2024.02.03.0004

Review of Martin et al. (2024)
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description: Section: Articles Categories: Titles A to Z Keywords: psychosocial development, political ideology, personality, conservatism Review of Martin et al. (2024)
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Titles A to Z
  topic: category
subject: psychosocial development
  topic: keywords
subject: political ideology
  topic: keywords
subject: personality
  topic: keywords
subject: conservatism
  topic: keywords
creator: J.D. Haltigan
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Open Inquiry In Behavioral Science https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-05-01
publication date: 2025-05-01
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2024.02.03.0003

Psychosocial development is negatively correlated with political extremism
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description: Section: Articles Categories: Titles A to Z Keywords: psychosocial development, political ideology, personality Previous research indicates that in college samples there is a positive correlation between psychosocial development and economic conservatism. We tested the generality of this relationship with a nationally representative sample of respondents from the United States. The result was instead consistent with an alternative hypothesis that psychosocial development is related to political extremism. To our knowledge, this is the first report of an association between psychosocial development and political orientation.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Titles A to Z
  topic: category
subject: psychosocial development
  topic: keywords
subject: political ideology
  topic: keywords
subject: personality
  topic: keywords
creator: Tim Martin
creator: Travis Hartin
creator: Paul Vonnahme
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Open Inquiry In Behavioral Science https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-05-01
publication date: 2025-05-01
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2024.02.03.0001

Review of Lauritsen (2024) II
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description: Section: Articles Review of Lauritsen (2024) II
subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Alice Eagly
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Open Inquiry In Behavioral Science https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-01-01
publication date: 2025-01-01
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2024.02.02.0003

Review of Lauritsen (2024)
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description: Section: Articles Categories: Titles A to Z Review of Lauritsen (2024)
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Titles A to Z
  topic: category
creator: Chris Ferguson
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Open Inquiry In Behavioral Science https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-01-01
publication date: 2025-01-01
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2024.02.02.0002

Schein (1973) Revisited: The Think Manager-Think Male Effect is a Statistical Artifact
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description: Section: Articles Keywords: think manager-think male, gender, bias Schein (1973) is a highly cited article in research on sex and gender biases. The original article concluded that people are biased against women regarding requisite management characteristics. However, the present paper replicates Schein (1973) and demonstrates that the findings were a result of an imbalanced ratio of items which exhibited mean differences between men and women targets. In addition, the use of intraclass correlations creates an illusion of large differences or similarities between targets when the actual mean rating differences are practically trivial and statistically nonsignificant. A bias against women, against men, and no bias are obtained by altering the number of male and female items, or by applying the intraclass correlation to more appropriate data. The implications of the results for the measurement of sex and gender biases are discussed. Broader concerns are raised about ideological biases which allow for conclusions and theories to propagate without empirical support.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: think manager-think male
  topic: keywords
subject: gender
  topic: keywords
subject: bias
  topic: keywords
creator: Matthew W. Lauritsen
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Open Inquiry In Behavioral Science https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-04-24
publication date: 2024-04-24
doi: 10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2024.02.02.0001