“…In addition, another seven MPs were excluded because their firms had values greater than three standard deviations from the mean on at least one of the following: revenues, profit margin, PPP, profitability index, or number of lawyers working in the firm. Finally, four of the MPs were women and, given that previous research has indicated that men and women are often perceived very differently in terms of trait ratings (e.g., Hess, Adams, & Kleck, 2005) and that women are disadvantaged for success in law firms (Hull & Nelson, 2000;Kay & Hagan, 1999), we excluded these targets from analysis. Thus, the final sample for analysis consisted of 77 MPs.…”