John Jost is the epitome of the social scientist as motivated political ideologue. In his paper "Grand Challenge: Social psychology without hubris", his hypocrisy is on full display.
I don't envy your 'crate-digging' into biased social psychology literature, but great article and analysis nonetheless. It cracked me up he was inticing his participant students with candy bars - a little weird for a middle aged dude to do (assuming he is). I'm not well acquainted with SJT, though I have heard of it. Is it regarded well at Massey?
I dunno about its popularity at Massey specifically, but it's one of the bigger and most popular theories in social psych I would say. Jost has been cited 73,000 times.
Luckily, I have avoided its wrath. Closer to home is the implicit bias research and the IAT. Every year I teach it as a tutor, trying to point out its many flaws while simultaneously telling students to ignore the critiques if they want a good mark on that section in the exam. Do you want truth or a good grade? One would hope they are aligned. Not today, young student: To get ahead you must smile and lie. A colourful hairdo heaps too.
Perhaps Jost is the social psychology analog of Mafia Mark (Mark Alfano) in philosophy.
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/mafia-mark-gets-grant-to-study-intellectual-humility-while-planning-to-use-ai-to-identify-enemies
I don't envy your 'crate-digging' into biased social psychology literature, but great article and analysis nonetheless. It cracked me up he was inticing his participant students with candy bars - a little weird for a middle aged dude to do (assuming he is). I'm not well acquainted with SJT, though I have heard of it. Is it regarded well at Massey?
I dunno about its popularity at Massey specifically, but it's one of the bigger and most popular theories in social psych I would say. Jost has been cited 73,000 times.
Luckily, I have avoided its wrath. Closer to home is the implicit bias research and the IAT. Every year I teach it as a tutor, trying to point out its many flaws while simultaneously telling students to ignore the critiques if they want a good mark on that section in the exam. Do you want truth or a good grade? One would hope they are aligned. Not today, young student: To get ahead you must smile and lie. A colourful hairdo heaps too.
It's a racket.
Speaking of implicit measures, did you see the implicit measure of aggression that I described in this post? https://brandonmcmurtrie.substack.com/p/fragile-masculinity-in-adolescent So dumb
Yea Jost uses implicit measures a lot in SJT research, too. Luckily we don’t teach it really!