Christopher Hsee, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Christopher Hsee, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Beauty, Ethnicity, and Justifiability: On the Psychology and Prevention of Discrimination
Beauty, Ethnicity, and Justifiability: On the Psychology and Prevention of Discrimination
26 Feb 20193:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Faculty and doctoral students only
Location:
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center 102
Organizer:
I will present experiments showing discrimination in diverse contexts, including physical appearance discrimination in consumer price negotiations, and ethnicity discrimination in college admission decisions. I will show how the mode of evaluation (joint evaluation versus single evaluation) influences the magnitude of discrimination, and how the sequence of evaluation (disadvantaged person first versus advantaged person first) influences the direction of discrimination. Theoretically, this research extends existing research on evaluability and justifiability; practically, this research suggests a choice-architecture-based method to reduce or even reverse discrimination.