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Effects of Group Discussion on Hiring Decisions Involving Transgender Workers: Experimental Evidence from India
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Covert Market Choice Experiment Framing
"The experiment was framed as market research for a grocery delivery service to measure real hiring decisions while minimizing the risk that participants would guess the study's true purpose."
Economic Trade-Off Benchmarking of Identity Bias
"Participants in the comparison group were willing to forgo items worth nearly twice the median daily per capita food expenditure whereas those in the 3-person discussion arm (group one) were not willing to sacrifice any items, on average."
Intragroup Peer Discussion for Outgroup Discrimination Reduction
"Compared to individuals in the comparison group that did not take part in group discussions, participants in 3-person discussions (group one) were 17 percentage points more likely to select a transgender individual for their delivery (a 42 percent increase)."
Prescriptive-Descriptive Norm Disconnect Activation
"Pro-transgender participants spoke up more often, making supportive statements 2.5 times more common than anti-transgender ones. Their arguments were morally persuasive, emphasizing values like opportunity, rights, and equality."
Public Decision Visibility Inefficiency Without Deliberation
"Participants in the public but no-discussion arm (group three), were not more likely than the comparison group to hire transgender individuals."
Legal Rights Information Decay vs Dialogue Persistence
"Participants who were offered the legal rights video and the rights messaging video were 10.3 percentage points (a 23 percent increase) and 5.8 percentage points (a 13 percent increase) more to hire a transgender individual, respectively... On the other hand, participants who viewed transgender rights videos did not discriminate less one month after the intervention."
Vicarious Deliberation Spillover in Passive Listeners
"Two participants were randomly selected to discuss and make choices for the group while the third participant listened to the discussion... Participants in the 2-person discussion arm (group two) were 13 percentage points more likely"