“…Our candidates' sexual orientation was signalled to recruiters through the first two dimensions of the vignettes, namely gender (man, woman) and marital status (married to [male name], married to [female name], married). 2 Compared to earlier experimental manipulations of sexual orientation such as 'involvement in LGBT organisation' (Ahmed, Andersson, & Hammarstedt, 2013;Barron & Hebl, 2013;Binder & Ward, 2016) or 'reference to LGBT scholarship programme' (Barron, 2009;Cunningham, Sartore, & McCullough, 2010), our 2 The (fe)male names used to indicate their marital partner were (Sarah Adams, Ellen Jones) James Bell and Oliver Smith. We randomly added gender names to avoid combinations of vignettes where multiple candidates were married to equally named partners.…”