Individual psychologists figure in our account of sexual harassment in psych, but we are far less interested in calling out individual bad actors than in highlighting the broader disciplinary culture that normalizes and sustains sexual harassment 17/n
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These are toxic disciplinary cultures that all too clearly continue right through the present day https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2019/05/new-allegations-of-sexual-assault-made-in-ongoing-lawsuit-against-dartmouth … 18/n
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Our piece on sexual harassment in psych has just been published. It is definitely a better piece now than in our initial drafts, but the content at the heart of it has not changed https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XDQYJH97S3CAWTAN9BAU/full … 19/n
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Why did it take 4 years to get this into print? There are a few reasons for this, but one is simply that *nobody* wants to talk about sexual harassment within psych, either about individuals who sexually harass or aspects of disciplinary culture that normalize this behaviour 20/n
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This was clear in some of the reviews early on. There was the self-identified feminist reviewer who suggested we focus on all the good social psych does rather than the dirty business of sexual harassment in the field 21/n
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And criticized us for calling out bad behaviour on the part of a now deceased psychologist, since he cannot defend himself 22/n
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Another early reviewer suggested rewriting the piece as an account of our personal experiences, clearly thinking that only someone who had been harassed by the psychologist in question could be writing about this behaviour. (To be clear, I was born *after* Tajfel died) 23/n
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And then there were the conversations about possibly being sued for outing sexual harassment (on the part of someone, mind you, who has been dead for nearly four decades) 24/n
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There is obviously much more in the article than I’ve covered here. I hope people read it and think about how it is sexual harassment has been normalized in scientific cultures. And more importantly take action to reshape those cultures 25/n
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Feel free to dm me, if you do not have access to the article. It would be great to have it open access, even if only temporarily, but not sure if we can get the publisher on board for that
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Thank you for this, for all this.
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