Table 1.
Content of recommendation letter highlights for 4 counterbalanced job applicants.
Figure 1.
Mean differences in hiring decisions are represented as a function of whether the job applicant was young or old and of the self-perceptions experimental manipulation (biased, objective, or control), when equity norms were present (Panel A) or absent (Panel B).
Error bars represent the standard errors.
Figure 2.
Mean differences in the perceived importance of the job applicants’ expertise in the hiring decision are represented as a function of the self-perceptions experimental manipulation (as either biased, objective, or control) and whether equity norms were present or absent; error bars represent the standard errors.