Findings from North Florida South Georgia Veterans Health System Update Understanding of Psychological Science (A Challenge To Orthodoxy In Psychology: Thomas Sowell and Social Justice).

This article focuses on recent psychological research examining the influence of political assumptions on social-justice work within psychology and advocates for greater intellectual and political diversity in the field. It highlights a review of Thomas Sowell’s scholarship by researchers at the North Florida South Georgia Veterans Health System in Jacksonville, Florida, emphasizing his perspectives on freedom, free markets, cultural capital, and economic analyses related to social reforms and minority education. The research suggests that incorporating Sowell’s hypotheses could enrich psychological inquiry and improve problem-solving approaches. This peer-reviewed study was published in *Perspectives on Psychological Science* and aims to challenge prevailing orthodoxies in psychology regarding social justice. [Extracted from the article]