ABSTRACT
This chapter documents the personal, lived experiences of social psychologists who have experienced political-based exclusion and discrimination because they do not consider themselves progressives. It discusses how these lived experiences can influence, and potentially distort, the scientific process as well as how such a climate can produce motivated reasoning among social psychologists that produces a disproportionate number of conclusions that are consistent with progressive ideological narratives. Possible ways of reducing politically based exclusion and discrimination are also discussed.
