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ArticlePersonality & social psychology bulletin2026

More Biased, Yet More Informed? Documenting Me-Search Stigma Primarily Linked to Researchers' Own Group Memberships.

Erdem O Meral, Corinne A Moss-Racusin, Jojanneke van der Toorn

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Article in Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Erdem O MeralUniversity of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6326-7840
Corinne A Moss-RacusinSkidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9824-7524
Jojanneke van der ToornLeiden University, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0476-772X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

"Me-searchers" study topics directly or indirectly relevant to themselves-such as social groups they belong to-and are often stigmatized as being more biased (though sometimes more informed) than those researching topics unrelated to their own experience. This study explores how queer and straight researchers are perceived when studying anti-queer bias or other topics through three pre-registered experiments (

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PrejudiceResearch PersonnelSexual and Gender MinoritiesSocial StigmaAdultFemaleHumansMaleSocial GroupStereotypingYoung Adultbiasme-searchqueerself-relevant researchstigma

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PMID40515493
PMCPMC13310276

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