Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction to the Politics of Social Psychology -- PART I: How Politicized Social Psychology Undermines Theory Generation and Hypothesis Testing -- 2 Do Ideologically Driven Scientific Agendas Impede the Understanding and Acceptance of Evolutionary Principles in Social Psychology? -- 3 Norms and Explanations in Social and Political Psychology -- 4 Does Political Ideology Hinder Insights on Gender and Labor Markets? -- 5 Neglected Trade-offs in Social Justice Research -- PART II: How Politicized Social Psychology Distorts Research Methods and Design -- 6 Scale Creation, Use, and Misuse: How Politics Undermines Measurement -- 7 The Politics of the Psychology of Prejudice -- 8 Rethinking the Rigidity of the Right Model: Three Suboptimal Methodological Practices and Their Implications -- PART III: How Politicized Social Psychology Distorts Interpretation of Research -- 9 Jumping to Conclusions: Advocacy and Application of Psychological Research -- 10 Socio-political Values Infiltrate the Assessment of Scienticfi Research -- 11 The Bullet-point Bias: How Diluted Science Communications Can Impede Social Progress -- PART IV: Political Discrimination in Social Psychology -- 12 Paranoid Egalitarian Meliorism: An Account of Bias in the Social Sciences -- 13 Political Exclusion and Discrimination in Social Psychology: Lived Experiences and Solutions -- PART V: Towards a De-Politicized Social Psychological Science -- 14 Interrupting Bias in Psychological Science: Evolutionary Psychology as a Guide -- 15 Possible Solutions for a Less Politicized Social Psychological Science -- Index