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What if psychology isn t as liberal as we think?
Psychology is often seen as a progressive discipline a champion of social justice, diversity, and liberal values. But this provocative book challenges that assumption. It argues that psychology, from its historical entanglements with eugenics and colonialism to its modern-day focus on individualism, has long served to reinforce the status quo.
Even as many psychologists identify as politically liberal, the field s methods, theories, and institutions often promote a worldview that downplays inequality, pathologizes dissent, and resists structural change. Psychology s emphasis on personal responsibility, resilience, and self-help frequently aligns more closely with conservative ideals than with progressive ones.
This book explores how the myth of a liberal bias in psychology has been weaponised in today s culture wars and how it distracts from the field s real political blind spots. It asks: what would it mean for psychology to truly live up to its promise of promoting human welfare?
Accessible, deeply researched, and sharply argued, Psychology s Quiet Conservatism is essential reading for anyone interested in how science shapes society and how society shapes science.
Part I The Myth of Liberal Bias in Psychology.- 1. Universities Under Fire.- 2. Psychology at the Centre of Cancel Culture.- 3. The Claim of Liberal Bias in Psychology.- 4. The Problem with Claims about Psychology s Liberal Bias .- 5. Culture War Psychology: Why the Liberal Bias Myth Persists, and Why it is Damaging.- 6. Liberal Bias in Psychology: An Intellectual Mirage.- Part II Conservative Psychology, Past and Present.- 7. Legacy Conservatism.- 8. What the Standard History of Psychology Usually Ignores.- 9. Psychology s Roots in Theology.- 10. Psychology s Roots in Class Conflict.- 11. Psychology s Roots in Eugenics.- 12. Psychology s Conservative Paradigms.- 13. From Conservative Past to Neoliberal Present.- Part III Psychology, Capitalism, and Human Welfare.- 14. Hierarchies and Hysteria.- 15. The Contrivance of Capitalist Minds.- 16. Capitalist Psychology.- 17. The Capitalist Denial of Illness.- 18. Personality Is Bad For You .- 19. The Psychologising of the Sick.- 20. Unidentified Psychic Objects.- 21. Pathology and Protectionism.- Part IV Modernity and Declinism.- 22. Generation Snowflake.- 23. Depoliticising Youth Anxiety.- 24. Biological Reductionism Revisited.- Part V The Coddling of Conservative Minds.- 25. How Psychology Reinforces (and thus Perpetuates) Social Conservatism.- 26. Example #1: By Standing Up Against Safetyism.- 27. Example #2: By Pathologising Dissent.- 28. Example #3: By Labelling Deviance.- 29. Example #4: By Stigmatising Negativity.- 30. Example #5: By Othering Ethnic Minorities.- 31. Example #6: By Policing Gender Identity.- 32. Example #7: By Perpetuating Traditional Gender Stereotypes.- 33. Example #8: By Exceptionalising Humanity.- Part VI Psychology s Whiteness Problem.- 34. Weird Science.- 35. Structural Racism in Psychology.- 36. Mechanisms of Whiteness.- 37. Silence as Supremacy.- Part VII Academic Exceptionalism and Psychology s Blind Eye.- 38. Internalising the War on Woke .- 39. Good Science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience.- 40. Exceptionalism in Psychology.- Part VIII Beyond Liberal Bias : Four Paths to a Well-Adjusted Psychology.- 41. Rights and Responsibilities.- 42. Path #1: Effortful Diversity.- 43. Path #2: Constructive Action in Education and Academia.- 44. Path #3: Constructive Action in the Public Square.- 45. Path #4: De-privileging Psychology.
Brian M. Hughes is Professor of Psychology at the University of Galway, Ireland. A leading expert in stress, health, and the public understanding of science, he is a prominent commentator and advocate for evidence-based policy. His books include A Conceptual History of Psychology (2022), The Psychology of Brexit (2019), and Psychology in Crisis (2018).
