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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Books reviewed:
Geoffrey Madell, Philosophy, Music and Emotion
Simon Blackburn, Ruling Passions
Ian Hacking, Historical Ontology
Jörg Hardy, Platons Theorie des Wissens im 'Theaitet:'     

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Book Review in this Articles:
RESPONSIBILITY, by J.R. Lucas
THE WISDOM OF FOOLS? by Mary Grey
MERTON. MYSTIC AT THE CENTER OF AMERICA. Thomas M. King
SILENT LAMP. THE THOMAS MERTON STORY. William H. Shannon
THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF CHILDREN by Robert Coles
BULTMANN by David Fergusson, Outstanding Christian Thinkers Series, editor Brian Davles     

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Book Review in this Articles:
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO AQUINAS, ed. Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump
LIVING A CHRISTIAN LIFE by Germain Grisez
FROM EXISTENCE TO GOD, by Barry Miller
THE COLLEGEVILLE BIBLE COMMENTARY NEW TESTAMENT, based on the New American Bible. General Editor R.J. Karris, O.F.M.
SIX NEW GOSPELS, by Margaret Hebblethwaite     

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Book reviews in this article:
Meaning and Purpose in the Intact Brain: A Philosophical, Psychological, Biological Account of Conscious Processes . By R obert M iller
Liturgies and Trials: The Secularization of Religious Language . By R ichard K. F enn
The Compromised Scientist: William James in the Development of American Psychology . By D aniel W. B jork
Through a Darkening Glass: Philosophy, Literature and Cultural Change . By D. Z. P hillips
Mechanistic and Nonmechanistic Science: An Investigation Into the Nature of Consciousness and Form . By R ichard L. T hompson
Religion, Revelation and Reason . By E ric R ust     

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Book reviewed in this article:
PETRARCH. POET AND HUMANIST by Kenelm Foster.
A DICTIONARY OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION, edited by J.M. Sutcliffe.
THE RELIGIOUS ROOTS OF REBELLION: Christians in the Central American Revolutions by Philip Berryman.
FROM DARKNESS TO THE DAWN by Anton Van Der Walla (Tr. John Bowden)
THE PROMISE OF NARRATIVE THEOLOGY by George W. Stroup.
HEALING AS SACRAMENT by Martin Israel.
MIRACLES AND THE MEDIEVAL MIND:THEORY, RECORD AND EVENT, 1000—1215 by Benedicta Ward.
L'OEUVRE LATINE DE MAITRE ECKHART: COMMENTAIRE DE LA GENÈSE PRÉCÉDÉ DES PROLOGUES, ed. Fernand Brunner, Alain de Libera, Edouard Wéber, Émilie zum Brunn.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
DIVERSITY AND COMMUNION, by Yves Congar, OP.
LIBERTÉ ET LOI DANS LGLISE, Les quatre fleuves
BEING HUMAN, by Edmund Hill. OP Geoffrey Chapman
MODERN THEOLOGY Volume I No 1 October 1984.
FREE IN CHRIST. An introduction to Political Theology, by Paul Lakeland.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Ethics of Environment and Development: Global Challenge and International Response . Edited by J. R onald E ngel and J oan G ibb E ngel .
Amythia: Crisis in the Natural History of Western Culture . By L 1oyal D. R ue. Foreword by William G. Doty.
God in History: Shapes of Freedom . By P eter C. H odgson .
The Brain and Belief: Faith in the Light of Brain Research . By J ames B. A shbrook .     

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Books reviewed in this article.
The Spectrum of Ritual: A Biogenetic Structural Analysis. By E ugene G. D'A quili , C harles D. L aughlin , J r ., and J ohn M c M anus , with Tom Burns, Barbara Lex, G. Ronald Murphy, S.J., and W. John Smith.
Beginnings in Ritual Studies. By R onald L. G rimes .
Pluralism and Personality: William James and Some Contemporary Cultures & Psychology. By D on S. B rowning .
Primordiality, Science and Value. By R. M. M artin .
After Virtue, a Study an Moral Theory. By A lasdair M acintyre .     

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Brain Research and Personhood: A Philosophical Theological Inquiry. By E ugene P. W ratchford.
Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation. By N eal C. G illespie.
Creativity and God: A Challenge to Process Theology. By R obert C. N eville.
Creation and the World of Science. By A. R. P eacocke.
Physics and Philosophy: Selected Essays. By H enry M argenau.
Biblical Games: A Strategic Analysis of Stories in the Old Testament. By S teven J. B rams.     

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Review in this Article
RADICAL ORTHODOXY: A NEW THEOLOGY, edited by John Mllbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward
THE WAY OF THE LAMB: THE SPIRIT OF CHILDHOOD AND THE END OF THE AGE by John Saward
GENTILE TALES: THE NARRATIVE ASSAULT ON LATE MEDIEVAL JEWS by Miri Rubin
LOURDES: BODY AND SPIRIT IN THE SECULAR AGE by Ruth Harris     

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Review in this Article
TEXT AND TRUTH: REDEFINING BIBLICAL THEOLOGY by Francis Watson. Edinburgh, 1987, T & T Clark
THEORIES OF COGNITION IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES by Robert Pasnau, Cambridge University Press
SANCTIFY THEM IN THE TRUTH: HOLINESS EXEMPLIFIED by Stanley Hauerwas T&T Clark Edinburgh     

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Books reviewed:
Timothy Gould, Hearing Things: Voice and Method in the Writing of Stanley Cavell
Olli Lagerspetz, Trust: The Tacit Demand
Robert Audi, Epistemology
Charles Taliaferro, Contemporary Philosophy of Religion
Martin Hollis, Trust Within Reason
Alexander Miller, Philosophy of Language     

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Books reviewed: M. C. Goldstein & M. T. Kapstein (eds), Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity Wendy Sinclair-Brull, Female Ascetics: Hierarchy and Purity in an Indian Religious Movement Menachem Kellner, Must a Jew Believe Anything? Vera Schwarcz, Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory Stephen E. Fowl, Engaging Scripture: A Model for Theological Interpretation Lester L. Grabbe, Ezra-Nehemiah Rolf Rendtorff, The Covenant Formulary: An Exegetical and Theological Investigation A. Graeme Auld, Joshua Retold: Synoptic Perspectives V. H. Matthews, B. M. Levinson and T. Frymer-Kensky (eds), Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East Steve Mason (ed.), Understanding Josephus: Seven Perspectives K. C. Hanson and Douglas E. Oakman, Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts Ben Witherington III, The Many Faces of the Christ: The Christologies of the New Testament and Beyond Anne Thurston, Knowing Her Place: Gender And The Gospels Nicholas King, Whispers of Liberation: Feminist Perspectives on the New Testament Elaine M. Wainwright, Shall We Look For Another? A Feminist Rereading of the Matthean Jesus Joseph W. Trigg, Origen Anthony Meredith S.J., Gregory of Nyssa Giuliana Cavallini, Catherine of Siena S. H. Webb, On God and Dogs: A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals Bishop Joe Aldred (ed.), Preaching with Power: Sermons by Black Preachers Gary Dorrien, The Remaking of Evangelical Theology R. H. Stone and M. L. Weaver (eds), Against the Third Reich: Paul Tillich's Wartime Radio Broadcasts into Nazi Germany George R. Hunsberger, Bearing the Witness of the Spirit: Lesslie Newbigin's Theology of Cultural Plurality Hermann Häring, Hans Küng: Breaking Through Timothy O'Connell, Making Disciples: A Handbook of Christian Moral Formation John J. McNeill, Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair James L. Empereur, Spiritual Direction and the Gay Person Stanley Hauerwas, Sanctify Them in the Truth: Holiness Exemplified George Pattison, The End of Theology – and the Task of Thinking about God J. Rieger (ed.), Liberating the Future: God, Mammon and Theology Don Cupitt, The Revelation of Being     

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Book reviewed in this article:
THE KNIFE EDGE OF EXPERIENCE, by Rosemary Haughton.
MERTON'S THEOLOGY OF PRAYER, by John J. Higgins, S.J.
ORTHODOXY AND HERESY IN EARLIEST CHRISTIANITY, by Walter Bauer.
OUR KNOWLEDGE OF RIGHT AND WRONG, by Jonathan Harrison.
SCIENCE IN A RENAISSANCE SOCIETY. W. P. D. Wightman
TERTULLIAN: A HISTORICAL AND LITERARY STUDY, by Timothy David Barnes.
ONE MAN AGAINST THE DRYLANDS, by Peggie Benton     

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Books Reviewed in this article:
THE MIGRATION OF WORKERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY by W. R. Bohning.
IMMIGRANT WORKERS AND CLASS STRUCTURE IN WESTERN EUROPE by Godula Korsachs and Stephen Castles
THE NEW FAMILIES. Youth, Communes, and the Politics of Drugs, by Ross V. Speck.
YOUNG OUTSIDERS. A study of alternative communities, by Richard Mills.
KEEP THE FAITH BABY. A close-up of London's drop-outs, by Kenneth Leech.
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE DRUG SCENE by Kenneth Leech.
THINKING ABOUT THE EUCHARIST by the Church of England Doctrine Commission.