Or, consider a general definition of "liberal" - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/liberal
Cheers, [Karl L. Wuensch]<http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm> From: Deborah S Briihl [mailto:dbri...@valdosta.edu] Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 9:56 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Psychology and Politics Well, let's look at a general definition (I just grabbed this off a dictionary site) Social conservatives tend to be against abortion, gay marriage, embryonic stem cell research, physician assisted suicide, gun control and affirmative action and for prayer in public schools, capital punishment and supporting Israel. If you look at the stance that our flagship organization (APA) and several other psych organizations hold that go against many of these ideas, then yes. As to individuals, I don't know. How many of these issues do you need to not support in order to be liberal? I know several of my colleagues who support some of these social conservative ideas. Deb Deborah Briihl Dept of psych and counseling Valdosta state university dbri...@valdosta.edu<mailto:dbri...@valdosta.edu> ,Sent from my iPad After reading articles like this one: "...90.6 percent of social and personality psychologists describe themselves as liberal on social issues (compared with 3.9 percent who describe themselves as conservative), and 63.2 percent describe themselves as liberal on economic issues (compared with 10.3 percent who describe themselves as conservative)." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jarryd-willis/polarized-psychology-is-science-devalued-in-a-divided-society_b_4839207.html one of my Psych Files facebook members asks, "Are most psychologists liberal? Does the liberal mindset affect the way Psychology is understood and even taught?". Good questions. Are we all mostly liberal? Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com<mailto:mich...@thepsychfiles.com> http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=35030 or send a blank email to leave-35030-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
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