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A Gendered Prestige: The Powers at Play When Doing Psychology with Ink Blots/StatisticsIn Kieran C. O'Doherty, Lisa M. Osbeck, Ernst Schraube & Jeffery Yen (eds.), Psychological Studies of Science and Technology, Springer Verlag. pp. 279-297. 2019.In the history of Psychology, women and the Rorschach ink blot test have had some surprising commonalities; both have been constructed as unscientific, emotional, and invalid. In this chapter we explore the history of women’s involvement with the Rorschach, and demonstrate how the conceptualization of legitimate science has negated women’s contributions in revealing ways. In particular, we will correspond this history with the related trajectory of the use of statistics in Psychology and examine…Read more
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8The Paradox of the Moderate Muslim Discourse: Subtyping Promotes Support for Anti-muslim PoliciesFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.Tolerant discourse in the United States has responded to heightened stereotyping of Muslims as violent by countering that “not all Muslims are terrorists.” This subtyping of Muslims—as some radical terrorists among mostly peaceful “moderates”—is meant to protect a positive image of the group but leaves the original negative stereotype unchanged. We predicted that such discourse may paradoxically increase people’s support of anti-Muslim policies because the subtyping and its associated negative s…Read more
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University of SurreyResearcher
Guildford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |