The Role of Automatic Obesity Stereotypes in Real Hiring Discrimination

This study examined whether automatic stereotypes captured by the implicit association test (IAT) can predict real hiring discrimination against the obese. In an unobtrusive field experiment, job applications were sent to a large number of real job vacancies. The applications were matched on credent...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Journal of applied psychology 2011-07, Vol.96 (4), p.790-805
Main Authors:	Agerström, Jens, Rooth, Dan-Olof
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Administrators Association Measures Automatic Bias Biological and medical sciences Body Weight - physiology Contextual Associations Credentials Discrimination Employment Discrimination Employment Interviews Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Hiring Human Humans Implicit beliefs Implicit Memory Interviews Job Applicant Interviews Job Applicants Job Application Job Skills Job vacancies Labor market Labour market Male Managers Measurement Negative Attitudes Obesity Obesity (Attitudes Toward) Obesity - psychology Occupational psychology Organizational behavior Orientation. Selection. Evaluation Personnel Management Personnel Selection Photography Pictorial Stimuli Prediction Predictive Validity Predictive Value of Tests Prejudice Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Recruitment Social Attitudes Social Bias Social Discrimination Stereotyped Attitudes Stereotypes Studies Sweden Tests Vacancies Word Association Tests
Citations:	Items that cite this one
Online Access:	Get full text
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!