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#91 Lee Jussim: How Stereotypes Work, and the Current State of Social Psychology

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The Role of Race in Social Psychology

I think there's been enough change in conventional wisdom on a lot of these topics over the last 30, 40 years that need a lot more. I would not be confident making strong claims, or either an evolutionary or biological basis for most differences between most groups. That doesn't mean it's wrong, but it doesn't mean the evidence is super strong. The evidence is growing and I just don't have the ethical problems that some people have with studying potential evolutionary basis between differences. And differences, or people don't like the race construct because the race has been heavily socially constructed.

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