Conformity under uncertainty: Reliance on gender stereotypes in online hiring decisions

Eric Luis Uhlmann and Raphael Silberzahn
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Eric Luis Uhlmann: GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Raphael Silberzahn: Judge Business School - CAM - University of Cambridge [UK]

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Abstract: We apply Bentley et al.'s theoretical framework to better understand gender discrimination in online labor markets. Although such settings are designed to encourage employer behavior in the northwest corner of Homo economicus, actual online hiring decisions tend to drift southeast into a "confirmation bias plus weak feedback loops" pattern of discrimination based on inaccurate social stereotypes.

Keywords: gender; discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-02
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Published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014, 37 (01), pp.103-104. ⟨10.1017/S0140525X13001921⟩

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DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13001921

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