Priming in economics

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André

doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2016.04.019

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“…These studies typically evaluate the priming intervention under stable conditions against a neutral control. Similar to comparing two conditions A and B in an experiment, as we do, this method circumvents many difficulties and identifies the causal impact of identity in heterogeneous social groups (for a discussion, see Cohn and Maréchal, 2016). The results of this literature suggest that there are important quantitative moderators of in-group bias.…”

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confidence: 89%

Cognitive ability and in-group bias: An experimental study

Paetzel

Sausgruber

2018

Journal of Public Economics

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Section: Further Literaturementioning

confidence: 89%

Cognitive ability and in-group bias: An experimental study

Paetzel

Sausgruber

2018

Journal of Public Economics

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“…Providing interviewers with a series of these questions, such as by asking them to TA B L E 4 Differences in candidate rating by intervention consider personal connections they feel with a candidate, or general stereotypes they may hold, could bring potential biases into awareness and limit their influence on interview evaluation. [43][44][45] The further structuring of interviews is a final way of potentially improving the integrity of the interview process. Research has suggested that structured interviews result in greater inter-rater reliability.…”

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confidence: 99%

The role of the interview in residency selection: A mixed‐methods study

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Context: Residency programmes invest considerable time and resources in candidate interviews as a result of their perceived ability to reveal important social traits. However, studies examining the ability of interviews to predict resident performance have shown mixed findings, and the role of the interview in candidate evaluation remains unclear. This mixed-methods study, conducted in an anaesthesiology residency programme at a large academic medical centre, examined how interviews contributed to candidate assessment and whether the addition of behavioural questions to interviews altered their role in the evaluation process. Methods: During the 2018-2019 residency selection season in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania, independent ratings for each interviewee were collected from faculty interviewers. Consensus ratings subsequently established by committee were also collected. Committee meetings were audiorecorded and transcribed for qualitative analysis. Behavioural questions were integrated into half of interview days. Ratings of candidates interviewed on behavioural question days were compared statistically with those of candidates interviewed on non-behavioural question days. Results: Qualitative analysis showed that interviewers heavily emphasised candidates' application files in evaluating the interviews. Interviewers focused on candidates' academic records and favoured candidates whose interview behaviours were consistent with their applications and whose applications demonstrated similarities to interviewers' traits. The addition of behavioural questions demonstrated little ability to alter these dynamics. Quantitatively, there were no significant differences in candidate rating outcomes between behavioural and non-behavioural interviewing days, whereas a higher medical school rating and higher score on the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 were associated with a more favourable consensus rating. Conclusions: Residency candidates' application files predisposed interviewers' experience and evaluation of interviews, preventing the interviews from providing discrete assessments of interpersonal qualities, even when behavioural questions were included. In the continued effort to perform well-rounded assessments of residency

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“…Empirically identifying the causal impact of identity is difficult, first, because several forms of identity -gender, religion, caste and race, for example -cannot be randomly assigned, and second because ethical considerations dictate caution in broaching these potentially sensitive topics. As a result, several empirical studies employ an experimental psychology tool called 'priming' -the process of providing subtle mental cues -to make the relevant aspect of identity salient (Cohn and Maréchal 2016). Lab and field experiments using priming or other identification mechanisms have augmented theoretical models with evidence of the role of identity in shaping cognitive or educational outcomes (Afridi, Li, and Ren 2015;Hoff andPandey 2006, 2014), economic and social preferences (Benjamin, Choi, and Strickland 2010;Y.…”

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The role of social identity in shaping economic choices: Evidence from women’s self-help groups in India

Alvi¹,

Raghunathan²,

Sehgal³

2019

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Priming in economics

Cited by 118 publications

References 65 publications

Cognitive ability and in-group bias: An experimental study

Cognitive ability and in-group bias: An experimental study

The role of the interview in residency selection: A mixed‐methods study

The role of social identity in shaping economic choices: Evidence from women’s self-help groups in India

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