{"title":"Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conversion Therapy: Or, Who Put The ‘GI’ in ‘SOGI’?","authors":"Holly Lawford-Smith","doi":"10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2024.02.01.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2024.02.01.0001","url":null,"abstract":"In the last few years, many countries have introduced (or are proposing to introduce) legislation on ‘conversion therapy’, prohibiting attempts to change or suppress sexual orientation and/or gender identity. This legislation covers ‘aversion therapy’, a form of torture that has already been criminalized in most progressive countries, and also ‘talk therapy’, involving things like counselling, psychoanalysis, and prayer. Focusing on this latter category of practices, I explain what is at stake in the fact that sexual orientation and gender identity have been paired for the purposes of this legislation. I use a particular law reform institute’s approach to this legislation as a case study, and review their literature review in mind to discovering whether they provided sufficient empirical justification for including gender identity in their conversion therapy legislation. I conclude that they did not, and suggest that the pairing of sexual orientation and gender identity may be purely political.","PeriodicalId":180485,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences","volume":"11 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139634018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond parochial bias: Commentary on Winegard et al. (2023).","authors":"Joachim Krueger","doi":"10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000011","url":null,"abstract":"Comments on Winegard et al.'s article on bias among liberals and the role of the value of equalitarianism.","PeriodicalId":180485,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences","volume":"118 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139263042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dangers of Bad History as a Source of Liberal Bias: Comment on Winegard et al., 2023","authors":"Christopher Ferguson","doi":"10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000010","url":null,"abstract":"Many social science researchers are liberals and progressives. Many published research studies also happen to support liberal and progressive narratives. This is even true for published research articles which might be fairly interpreted as insulting of conservatives such as referring to them as racist or unintelligent. Is this a coincidence? In a series of impressive studies Winegard et al., 2023 demonstrate that political bias influences liberals perceptions and that, in the quest for finding equality, liberals assign greater moral worth to minority groups than majority. These findings have important implications for recent revisionist history approaches within education, and potential misinformation spread among youth in schools.","PeriodicalId":180485,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139263072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Value Gap: A School Psychologist’s Perspective on Rausch et al.(2023)","authors":"Jeffery Braden","doi":"10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000009","url":null,"abstract":"Rausch et al. describe an empirical effort to test a number of hypotheses put forward by Lukianoff and Haidt (2018) regarding the values of contemporary (Gen Z) vs. previous generations of undergraduates. My review of their work focuses primarily on the methodologies Rausch et al. employ in executing their research. Strengths of their study include: the empirical replication and extension of prior claims; a priori specification of hypotheses and the methodology to test them; and the insight that prior claims may confound gender and generational status. Weaknesses include: the use of an untested (and unknown) scale to measure their dependent variable; the unfortunate and erroneous classification of majors into “hard” science vs. social science categories; a confound between graduate student status and generational status; and the number and interdependence of the statistical tests they use to test their hypotheses. All of the methodological weaknesses I identify (with the exception of their measurement of academic values) could be strengthened through changes to their procedures and analyses. Overall, their insight that Lukianoff and Haidt’s attribution of value differences to generational status may be confounded with gender is worthy of further research.","PeriodicalId":180485,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139365535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of ‘It’s Not What Was Said But Who Said It To Whom: Interactant Sex Affects Attributions of Sexism in Ambiguous Situations’","authors":"P. Connor","doi":"10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":180485,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116378802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Value Gap: How Gender, Generation, Personality, and Politics Shape the Values of American University Students","authors":"Zachary Rausch, Glenn Geher, Clare Redden","doi":"10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000001","url":null,"abstract":"Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, in their book, The Coddling of the American Mind (2018), portrayed current undergraduate American college students (most of whom are in the generation Gen Z: 1995 - 2013) as valuing emotional well-being and the advancement of social justice goals above traditional academic values such as academic freedom and the pursuit of truth. We investigated whether this value discrepancy exists among 574 American university students by exploring the prioritization of five different academic values (academic freedom, advancing knowledge, academic rigor, social justice, and emotional well-being). We also explored how gender, generation, personality, major, and conservatism predict each academic value. Generational differences were present, with Gen Z students emphasizing emotional well-being and de-emphasising academic rigor. Males scored higher on measures of academic freedom and advancing knowledge, while lower on social justice and emotional well-being compared to females. Political conservatism was the strongest predictor for social justice scores, with increased liberal attitudes predicting higher scores on social justice. Emotional stability positively predicted advancing knowledge, while negatively predicting emotional well-being. Agreeableness positively predicted emotional well-being, while negatively predicting advancing knowledge. We ultimately argue that gender is a crucial, underestimated explanatory factor of the value orientations of American college students.","PeriodicalId":180485,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129256646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Base Rates Can Be Both Socially Useful and Socially Undesirable: Review of Grawitch et al 2022","authors":"Cory J. Clark","doi":"10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":180485,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127673838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew J. Grawitch, Kristi N. Lavigne, Srikanth Mudigonda
{"title":"It’s Not What Was Said but Who Said It to Whom: Interactant Sex Affects Attributions of Sexism in Ambiguous Situations","authors":"Matthew J. Grawitch, Kristi N. Lavigne, Srikanth Mudigonda","doi":"10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000003","url":null,"abstract":"\"Building on error management theory and heuristic decision making, we conducted three studies manipulating the sex of the sender and receiver of messages and asked observers to rate the sender’s sexism (Studies 1-3), pleasantness, and professionalism (Studies 2-3). We also examined concern for political correctness (CPC) and social justice attitudes (Study 1), ambivalence toward men (Study 2), and neosexism (Study 3) as moderators of respondent ratings. Across all studies, we found that when the receiver was female, the sender was rated as significantly more sexist, especially when the sender was male. Although CPC, social justice attitudes, and ambivalence toward men failed to interact with scenario conditions, there was suggestive evidence that neosexism levels resulted in stronger sexism ratings in themale sender-female receiver condition.\"","PeriodicalId":180485,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130234000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The challenging task of demonstrating motivated tribalism: Review of Bernstein et al 2023","authors":"P. Ditto","doi":"10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000006","url":null,"abstract":"The contribution of Bernstein et al reports a series of studies demonstrating partisan bias: the tendency to evaluate otherwise identical information more favorably when it supports one’s political beliefs or allegiances than when it challenges those beliefs or allegiances. The write-up is clear and concise, and the studies are interesting with a number of nice empirical touches, but the novelty and quality of the data need to be considered, especially the difficulty of ruling out rational counter explanations for data ostensibly showing motivated partisan bias.","PeriodicalId":180485,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127795719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment on \"Tribalism in American Politics: Are Partisans Guilty of Double Standards?\"","authors":"R. Redding","doi":"10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2023.01.01.00000007","url":null,"abstract":"This brief paper comments on the Bernstein et al. studies on \"Tribalism in American Politics.\" Although the studies have some significant limitations, they provide a tantalizing window into the possibility that the state of affairs with respect to partisan bias may not be as sanguine as a recent meta-analysis suggests - that liberals and conservatives are equally biased against the other. On the contrary, until relatively recently, when researchers are now starting to challenge the received wisdom on the subject, the social and political psychology project has painted a relatively negative psychological portrait of conservatives and a positive one of liberals. By now, these portraits are well familiar to most psychologists and even much of the general public. Conservatives are more authoritarian, less intelligent, and more closed minded, among other things. Liberals are more enlightened, more flexible, and more open minded. But is this narrative correct? Could it be that liberals are more biased and less open-minded than conservatives, as the Bernstein et al. findings suggest, at least under some (perhaps even many) circumstances? The answer to this question, with its likely complexities, awaits further research.","PeriodicalId":180485,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132781207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}