Dealing with diversity in psychology: Science or ideology?

The increasing use of political activist arguments and reasoning in scientific communication about diversity is criticized. Based on an article of Roberts, Bareket-Shavit, Dollins, Goldie, and Mortenson (2020) on “Racial inequality in psychological research”, three hallmarks of the intrusion of activist thinking into science are described: (1) blindness to the multidimensional nature of diversity; (2) the failure to distinguish psychological mechanisms from the impact of moderators; and (3) a blindness to agency as an explanation for psychological observations. It is argued that uncritically accepting and introducing political activist arguments into science is likely to damage scientific freedom and independence.