Connectionists: Mindvoyage with Cory Clark | May 23

[Brown, Tanya]

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The Mindvoyage lecture series features prominent scholars from different disciplines
including the humanities, biology, neuroscience and physics.
Talks are dedicated to engaging in discussions related to
novel, distinct and often controversial topics.





The next talk will feature Cory Clark on May 23 @ 16:00 CET



Free  |  Online event  |  All are welcome  |  Registration required



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Abstract


Taboos and Self-Censorship among Psychology Professors



I will discuss results of qualitative interviews (n=41) and a quantitative survey (n=470) of U.S. psychology professors, identifying points of conflict and consensus regarding (1) controversial empirical claims and (2) normative preferences for how controversial scholarship—and scholars—should be treated. Professors strongly disagreed on the truth status of 10 candidate taboo conclusions. Professors more confident in the truth of the taboo conclusions reported more self-censorship, a pattern that likely biases perceived scientific consensus regarding the inaccuracy of controversial conclusions. Almost all professors worried about social sanctions if they were to express their own empirical beliefs. Most professors opposed suppressing scholarship and punishing peers based on moral concerns about research conclusions and reported contempt for peers who petition to retract papers on moral grounds. These results do not resolve empirical or normative disagreements among psychology professors, but they may provide an empirical context for their discussion.



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Hosted by Lucia Melloni<https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/the-institute/people/lucia-melloni-en.html> and Tanya Brown<https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/the-institute/people/tanya-brown.html> from the
Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics<https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en.html>,
on behalf of the ARC-COGITATE<https://arc-cogitate.com/> Consortium

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Tanya Brown
Scientific Project Manager  |  ARC-COGITATE<https://arc-cogitate.com/>
Neural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Research Group

Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
Grüneburgweg 14
60322 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

tanya.brown at ae.mpg.de<mailto:tanya.brown at ae.mpg.de>
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