Lee Jussim: “Actually, stereotypes are often accurate”

Rak höger med Ivar Arpi · May 9, 2026 · 57m

My guest today is Lee Jussim , Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Rutgers and one of social psychology’s most persistent internal critics. And he’s also a fellow Substacker, so go and check out his excellent publication Unsafe Science on Substack after the podcast. I highly recommend it.

For decades, Jussim has challenged a powerful story inside his own field. Social psychology often treated stereotypes as false by definition, implicit bias as a hidden force explaining discrimination, and ordinary human judgment as something suspect — something experts had to diagnose and correct…