Tag
cognitive_bias
2 findings
Behaviour & psychologyAttributional Cognitive UnburdeningTreated workers receiving cash were 10 percentage points (30%) more likely to attribute negative affect to non-financial reasons (p=0.038) and 9 percentage points (62%) more likely to state reasons completely distinct from income or poverty (p=0.018).RCTBehaviour & psychologyCoarse Categorization BiasRecruiters consistently lumped foreign-named applicants into a single lower-evaluated group based on assumed language barriers. Even when resumes explicitly listed multi-language fluency (English, French, mother tongue), active extracurricular involvement, or high-prestige backgrounds, callback rates remained suppressed at 5.9% to 11.3% compared to 15.7% for native English-named resumes.Observational Study