Cognitive biases in the perception of discrimination: The importance of format |
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Authors: | Faye Crosby Susan Clayton Olaf Alksnis Kathryn Hemker |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Smith College, 01063, Northampton, Massachusetts 2. Yale University, USA
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Abstract: | Previous work has shown that people seem less able to perceive sex discrimination on a personal level than on a societal level. The present experiment was performed to test the hypothesis that this phenomenon is in part an information-processing bias; that is, the perception of discrimination is more difficult when one makes case-by-case comparisons than when one encounters information in aggregate form. The experiment demonstrated the importance of formatting for the perception of discrimination. Among subjects with little or no emotional investment in the issue of sex discrimination, the format of the pertinent information has a large effect on information processing: subjects perceived less discrimination when they encountered the relevant information in little chunks than when they saw the total picture at a single shot. |
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