Casuistry and Social Category Bias
This research explored cases where people are drawn to make judgments between individuals based on questionable criteria, in particular those individuals' social group memberships. We suggest that individuals engage in casuistry to mask biased decision making, by recruiting more acceptable crit...
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| description | This research explored
cases where people are drawn to make judgments between individuals based on questionable
criteria, in particular those individuals' social group memberships. We suggest that
individuals engage in
casuistry
to mask biased decision making, by
recruiting more acceptable criteria to justify such decisions. We present 6 studies that
demonstrate how casuistry licenses people to judge on the basis of social category
information but appear unbiased-to both others and themselves-while
doing so. In 2 domains (employment and college admissions decisions), with 2 social
categories (gender and race), and with 2 motivations (favoring an in-group or out-group),
the present studies explored how participants justify decisions biased by social category
information by arbitrarily inflating the relative value of their preferred candidates'
qualifications over those of competitors. |
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criteria, in particular those individuals' social group memberships. We suggest that
individuals engage in
casuistry
to mask biased decision making, by
recruiting more acceptable criteria to justify such decisions. We present 6 studies that
demonstrate how casuistry licenses people to judge on the basis of social category
information but appear unbiased-to both others and themselves-while
doing so. In 2 domains (employment and college admissions decisions), with 2 social
categories (gender and race), and with 2 motivations (favoring an in-group or out-group),
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criteria, in particular those individuals' social group memberships. We suggest that
individuals engage in
casuistry
to mask biased decision making, by
recruiting more acceptable criteria to justify such decisions. We present 6 studies that
demonstrate how casuistry licenses people to judge on the basis of social category
information but appear unbiased-to both others and themselves-while
doing so. In 2 domains (employment and college admissions decisions), with 2 social
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cases where people are drawn to make judgments between individuals based on questionable
criteria, in particular those individuals' social group memberships. We suggest that
individuals engage in
casuistry
to mask biased decision making, by
recruiting more acceptable criteria to justify such decisions. We present 6 studies that
demonstrate how casuistry licenses people to judge on the basis of social category
information but appear unbiased-to both others and themselves-while
doing so. In 2 domains (employment and college admissions decisions), with 2 social
categories (gender and race), and with 2 motivations (favoring an in-group or out-group),
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information by arbitrarily inflating the relative value of their preferred candidates'
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