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Modern Wisdom5 Topics In Psychology That We’re Not Allowed To Talk About - Dr Cory Clark
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Are Men The New Underdogs? Psychology, Gender, And Censorship Examined
- Chris Williamson and Dr. Cory Clark discuss evidence that, in many modern Western contexts, people show a pro-female bias while public narratives still focus almost exclusively on misogyny and anti-female discrimination. Clark outlines research suggesting that hiring and evaluative biases have flipped in favor of women since around 2009, and that both the public and academics systematically misperceive this shift. They explore how rising female dominance in academia appears to correlate with greater emphasis on harm-avoidance, inclusion, and censorship over truth-seeking and academic freedom. The conversation broadens into evolutionary psychology, political bias, and how moral grandstanding and fear of offense may be degrading scientific integrity and public trust in science.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasPro-female bias is common in Western contexts despite persistent misogyny narratives.
Clark cites research showing people often like women more, punish them less, and rate women-favoring or equal-gender findings as more acceptable than male-favoring ones, yet public discourse fixates on anti-female sexism and largely ignores anti-male biases.
Hiring and evaluative biases appear to have flipped toward women in many domains.
Audit studies of job applications indicate that biases that once favored men—especially in male-stereotyped fields—often now favor women, while biases that historically favored women still do; however, laypeople and academics typically believe women are still being discriminated against.
Women’s growing dominance in academia is reshaping institutional priorities.
Women now outnumber men at undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels; survey data show female academics are more likely than men to prioritize harm prevention, inclusion, and egalitarian outcomes over free speech, academic freedom, and pure truth-seeking.
Controversial findings are self-censored, producing a distorted sense of consensus.
In Clark’s survey of psychology professors, those who believe taboo conclusions (e.g., evolved sex differences) are true report higher self-censorship, while academics who favor suppression of such work are more vocal—skewing what appears to be the field’s “official” position.
Moral concerns are increasingly used to justify censoring valid research.
Major journals have adopted policies to reject or retract work that might “undermine the dignity” of groups, and professors (especially women) are more supportive of ostracizing, not hiring, or not publishing scholars whose evolutionary or genetic findings favor men or whites over women or minorities.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesPut simply, men are relatively more interested in advancing what is empirically correct, and women are relatively more interested in advancing what is morally desirable.
— Dr. Cory Clark
The people who think these controversial conclusions are true are the ones self‑censoring, which means what we hear publicly is systematically distorted.
— Dr. Cory Clark
If science isn’t about understanding what’s happening in the world and accurately making predictions, I don’t understand what we’re doing here. Why don’t we just write fiction?
— Chris Williamson
We’re ignoring a potential disparity that potentially could be fixed by something, and we’ll just never look for the thing that could fix it.
— Dr. Cory Clark
It’s almost like everybody is shadowboxing against an imaginary hegemon… ‘Allow me to step in. You don’t know what’s right for you. I will be your savior.’
— Chris Williamson
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