The effect of religious and sexual stigmas on programmers and trust in their work product

Aviation Consumers’ Trust in Pilots: A Cognitive or Emotional Function

“…A criticism of that study could be the extreme conditions of the two hypothetical people: one was a Good Samaritan compared to a child molester. Rice and Richardson (2013) reviewed the stigma toward a computer programmer and the trust in their software output based on sexual orientation and religious descriptors. As similar to previously mentioned research, participants in this study rated those individuals that were not Christian or Jewish heterosexuals as less positive and their resulting work products as less trustworthy.…”

“…As similar to previously mentioned research, participants in this study rated those individuals that were not Christian or Jewish heterosexuals as less positive and their resulting work products as less trustworthy. Additionally, Rice and Richardson (2013) completed a mediation analysis between the level of trust between Christian heterosexual and Christian homosexual programmers, and found that affect had a dominating mediation effect on the relationship between the condition and trust. This finding suggests that study participants were heavily influenced by emotion as opposed to a more cognitive function when rating the trust/trustworthiness of the individual.…”