# Professor Jonathan Haidt's research on liberal bias in social sciences is cited

1 Faculty News September 1, 2016 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2016/09/01/the-conservative-critics-the-bbc-left-out-of-its-best-movies-poll/?utm_term=.7e98d57203e2) -- "While noodling through the case of the missing conservative critics, I sometimes think of sociologist [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) and his efforts to root out — or, at least, create awareness of — liberal bias in the social sciences. The left-right imbalance in the academy is nothing short of eye-popping."

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