Masked Reviews Are Not Fairer Reviews

ABSTRACT— Many people believe that reviewers are less likely to produce unfair and biased reviews when they do not know the identity of the authors. However, there is surprisingly little evidence of such bias, there is little evidence that masked review is effective in addressing bias, and masked review has potential costs and drawbacks to the research community. More empirical work on the existence and nature of bias is needed.     

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Martin, Dale B. The Corinthian Body
Jones, Serene Calvin and the Rhetoric of Piety
Webster, John Barth's Ethics of Reconciliation
Lennan, Richard The Ecclesiology of Karl Rahner
Chopp, Rebecca S. Saving Work: Feminist Practices of Theological Education
Desmond, William Being and the Between , and Perplexity and Ultimacy: Metaphysical Thoughts from the Middle
Baum, Gregory Essays in Critical Theology
Schweiker, William Responsibility and Christian Ethics
Thiel, John E. Nonfoundationalism
van Deusen Hunsinger, Deborah Theology and Pastoral Counseling: A New Interdisciplinary Approach     

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Jantzen, Grace M. Power, Gender, and Christian Mysticism
Matuštík, Martin J. and Westphal, Merold (eds) Kierkegaard and Post/Modernity
Samuelson, Norbert Judaism and the Doctrine of Creation
Goizueta, Roberto S. Caminemos con Jesús: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment
Lee, Jung Young The Trinity in Asian Perspective
Schwöbel, Christoph (ed.) Trinitarian Theology Today: Essays on Divine Being and Act
Murphy, Francesca Aran Christ the Form of Beauty: A Study in Theology and Literature
Rasmusson, Arne The Church as Polis: From Political Theology to Theological Politics as Exemplified by Jürgen Moltmann and Stanley Hauerwas
Reno, R.R. The Ordinary Transformed: Karl Rahner and the Christian Vision of Transcendence
Dorrien, Gary Soul in Society: The Making and Renewal of Social Christianity     

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Thiselton, Anthony C. Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self: On Meaning, Manipulation and Promise
Rose, Gillian Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation
Parratt, John Reinventing Christianity: African Theology Today
Jenson, Robert W. Essays in Theology of Culture
Goodman, L.E. God of Abraham
Mommaers, Paul and Van Bragt, Jan Mysticism, Buddhist and Christian: Encounters with Jan Van Ruusbroec
Loughlin, Gerard Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology
Arendt, Hannah Love and Saint Augustine
Stock, Brian Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation
Bethke, Elshtain, Jean Augustine and the Limits of Politics     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Theology for a Nuclear Age By G ordon D. K aufman .
Metaphoric Process: The Creation of Scientific and Religious Understanding. By M ary G erhart and A llan M elvin R ussell .
Biblical Faith: An Evolutionary Approach By G erd T heissen . Translated by John Bowden.
Biblical Faith: An Evolutionary Approach By G erd T heissen . Translated by John Bowden.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
THE LOGIC OF DETERRENCE by Anthony Kenny
SAINT AUGUSTINE ON SLAVERY, STUDIA EPHEMEREDIS 'AUGUSTINIANUM'
THE THREAD OF LIFE by Richard Wollheim.
A PLACE IN THE SUN: AN INTRODUCTION TO LIBERATION THEOLOGY IN THE THIRD WORLD by Theo Witvliet.
THE CONCEPT OF PURITY AT QUMRAN AND IN THE LEITERS OF PAUL by Michael Newton.
PHILOSOPHY FOR UNDERSTANDING THEOLOGY by Diogenes Allen.
IMAGES OF CHRIST: AN INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTOLOGY.
UTILITY AND RIGHTS, edited by F.G. Frey.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
THE LANGUAGE AND LOGIC OF THE BIBLE: THE ROAD TO REFORMATION by G.R. Evens.
VATICAN II BY THOSE WHO WERE THERE edited by Alberic Stacpoole O.S.B.
MA˚E ECKHART: METAPHYSIQUE DU VERBE ET THÉOLOGIE NÉGATIVE, by Émilie zum Brunn and Alain de Libera.
THE COGNITIVITY OF RELIGION: THREE PERSPECTIVES by J. Kellenberger.
THE WORLD OF JOHN OF SALISBURY, edited by Michael Wilks
THE MARY DIMENSION by Rita Crowley Turner.     

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S tein , M urray . Jung's Treatment of Christianity: The Psychotherapy of a Religious Tradition
R ycroft , C harles . Psychoanalysis and Beyond
C hasseguet -S mirgel , J anine . The Ego Ideal: A Psychoanalytic Essay on the Malady of the Ideal
R othstein , A rnold . The Narcissistic Pursuit of Perfection     

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J acoby , M ario . Longing for Paradise. Psychological Perspectives on an Archetype
S amuels , A ndrew (Ed.). The Father: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives
W heelwright , J. H. For Women Growing Older-the Animus
F rustration /G ratification . Rivista di Psicologia Analitica
I zutsu , T oshihiko . The Interior and Exterior in Zen Buddhism     

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Book reviewed in this article:
FREEDOM TO HOPE, edited by Alan Falconer, Enda McDonagh and Sean MacReamoinn. Columba Press , Dublin 1985
THE LOGIC OF GOD INCARNATE by Thomas V. Morris. Cornell University Press , lthaca and London, 1986
EVOLUTION AND CREATION, ed. Ernan McMullin. University of Notre Dame Ress , 1985
MUSIC AND THE EMOTIONS, THE PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES, by Malcolm Budd. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul
THE OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA by J.M. Charlesworth (ed.): Volume 2 Expansions of the "Old Testament" and Legends. Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms, and Odes. Fragments of lost Judeo-Hellenistic Works. Darton, Longman and Todd , London, 1985
K GRAYSTON HOW CAN WE KNOW? by A.N. Wilson. Penguin Books . 1988
ENCOUNTERS: EXPLORING CHRISTIAN FAITH, Michael Mayne, ed., Darton, Longman and Todd , 1986
THE VATICAN AND ITALIAN FASCISM. 1929–32: A STUDY IN CONFLICT by John E. Pollard. Cambridge University Press
THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY. THE IMPACT OF COMTEAN POSITIVISM by T.R. Wright. Cambridge
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO VATICAN II? by Michael Winter, Sheed and Ward , London
READINGS IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY edited by Peter Hodgson and Robert King. S.P.C.K . 1985     

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WAYS OF IMPERFECTION: AN EXPLORATION OF CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY by Simon Tugwell OP., D.L.T .
PAUL: HIS LEITERS AND HIS THEOLOGY, by Stanley B. Marrow SJ.
THE UNCHANGING GOD OF LOVE: A STUDY OF THE TEACHING OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS ON DIVINE IMMUTABILITY LN VIEW OF CERTAIN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISMS OF THIS DOCTRINE, by Michael J. Dodds O.P.
SAINT HUGH OF LINCOLN BY D. H. Farmer.
AUGUSTINE BY Henry Chadwick.
LOGIC: AN ARISTOTELIAN APPROACH by Mary Michael Spangler OP.
PROTESTANTISM AND REPRESSION: A Brazilian Case Study by Ruben A Alves.     

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Book reviews in this article:
Creation and the End of Days: Judaism and Scientific Cosmology . Edited by D avid N ovak and N orbert S amuelson
Evolution as Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears . B y M ary M idgley     

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Book reviews in this article:
The New Faith-Science Debate: Probing Cosmology, Technology and Theology . Edited by J ohn M. M angum .
The Social Meaning of Modern Biology—from Social Darwinism to Sociobiology . By H oward L. K aye .
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes . By S tephen W. H awking .     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The Justification of Science and the Rationality of Religious Belief By M ichael C. B anner .
Theology and the Justification of Faith. By W entzel V an H uyssteen .
Explanation from Physics to Theology . By P hilip C layton .
Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning . By N ancey M urphy .     

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Book reviewed in this article:
TEN LETTERS TO TWO YOUNG ARTISTS WORKING IN ITALY JULIET WOOD AND RICHARD SHIRLEY SMITH by David Jones edited by Derek Shiel with a preface by John Montague
YMBORTH YR ENAIO, edited with introduction and notes by R. lestyn Daniel.
DAVID JONES: THE MAKER UNMADE by Jonathan Miles and Derek Shiel