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To test the efficacy of countering four specific stereotypes—incompetence, lack of commitment, inflexibility, and need for accommodation—in reducing interpersonal discrimination toward pregnant applicants.

January 1, 2013Journal of Applied Psychology

A field experiment: Reducing interpersonal discrimination toward pregnant job applicants.

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To test the efficacy of countering four specific stereotypes—incompetence, lack of commitment, inflexibility, and need for accommodation—in reducing interpersonal discrimination toward pregnant applicants.
Conducted a field experiment with female confederates applying for jobs in retail settings, who randomly wore pregnancy prostheses or presented as nonpregnant.
Introduced counterstereotypic information targeting perceived incompetence, lack of commitment, inflexibility, and accommodation requirements to retail hiring managers.
Assessed interpersonal hostility and discrimination toward applicants using converged ratings from applicants, observers, and independent coders.
Pregnant applicants faced significantly higher levels of interpersonal hostility from hiring managers than nonpregnant applicants across all evaluation perspectives.
Hiring managers demonstrated significantly lower levels of interpersonal discrimination when presented with counterstereotypic information.
Countering stereotypes specifically regarding commitment and flexibility was significantly more effective at decreasing discrimination than targeting other stereotypes.

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Field experiment demonstrates counterstereotypic cues reduce interpersonal discrimination toward pregnant job applicants, indicating targeted framing can mitigate workplace bias.

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Morgan et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1c0988b33628da419d235b https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034040

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Field experiment demonstrates counterstereotypic cues reduce interpersonal discrimination toward pregnant job applicants, indicating targeted framing can mitigate workplace bias.

A field experiment: Reducing interpersonal discrimination toward pregnant job applicants.

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