Judging job applicants by their politics: Effects of target–rater political dissimilarity on discrimination, cooperation, and stereotyping

IF 1.8 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Social and Political Psychology Pub Date : 2022-02-21 DOI:10.31234/osf.io/ctqmw

Samantha Sinclair, Artur Nilsson, Jens Agerström

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Abstract

Despite well-known problems associated with political prejudice, research that examines effects of political dissimilarity in organizational contexts is scarce. We present findings from a pre-registered online experiment (N = 973) which suggest that both Democrats and Republicans discriminate and negatively stereotype job applicants with a political orientation that is dissimilar to their own. The effects were small for competence judgments, moderate in size for hiring judgments, and large for warmth ratings and for willingness to cooperate and socialize with the applicant. Furthermore, for all outcomes except competence judgments, Democrats discriminated and stereotyped applicants to a larger extent than Republicans did. These findings shed light on the consequences of applicants disclosing or revealing their political orientation. They also have potentially important implications for the promotion of diversity in organizations.

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从政治角度判断求职者：目标-评分者政治差异对歧视、合作和刻板印象的影响

尽管众所周知存在与政治偏见相关的问题，但研究组织背景下政治差异的影响的研究却很少。我们提出了一项预先注册的在线实验（N=973）的结果，该实验表明，民主党和共和党都歧视求职者，并对其政治取向与自己不同的求职者形成负面刻板印象。能力判断的影响较小，招聘判断的影响中等，热情评级以及与申请人合作和社交的意愿的影响较大。此外，对于除能力判断外的所有结果，民主党人比共和党人在更大程度上歧视和定型申请人。这些发现揭示了申请人披露或暴露其政治取向的后果。它们还可能对促进组织的多样性产生重要影响。

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

CiteScore

2.70

自引率

4.80%

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审稿时长

40 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal (without author fees), published online. It publishes articles at the intersection of social and political psychology that substantially advance the understanding of social problems, their reduction, and the promotion of social justice. It also welcomes work that focuses on socio-political issues from related fields of psychology (e.g., peace psychology, community psychology, cultural psychology, environmental psychology, media psychology, economic psychology) and encourages submissions with interdisciplinary perspectives. JSPP is comprehensive and integrative in its approach. It publishes high-quality work from different epistemological, methodological, theoretical, and cultural perspectives and from different regions across the globe. It provides a forum for innovation, questioning of assumptions, and controversy and debate. JSPP aims to give creative impetuses for academic scholarship and for applications in education, policymaking, professional practice, and advocacy and social action. It intends to transcend the methodological and meta-theoretical divisions and paradigm clashes that characterize the field of social and political psychology, and to counterbalance the current overreliance on the hypothetico-deductive model of science, quantitative methodology, and individualistic explanations by also publishing work following alternative traditions (e.g., qualitative and mixed-methods research, participatory action research, critical psychology, social representations, narrative, and discursive approaches). Because it is published online, JSPP can avoid a bias against research that requires more space to be presented adequately.