“…As a final example, an attorney introducing her husband to her firm's partners might say, "he's an administrative assistant" rather than "he's a secretary" when asked what he does. Despite the fact that social identity labels can be interchangeable, SCL switching can mitigate bias because research has revealed that stereotypes that are associated with synonymous labels can vary in significant ways (Crawford, Brandt, Inbar, & Mallinas, 2015;Hall, Phillips, & Townsend, 2015;Rios, 2013;Smith, Murib, Motta, Callaghan, & Theys, 2017). Because the labels Personnel Assessment And decisions comPensAtory strAtegies to mitigAte BiAs sound differently, they can activate different stereotypes, which could lead to different attributions (Koch, Luft, & Kruse, 2005;Vakoch & Wurm, 1997;Wurm & Vakoch, 1996).…”