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Sexual orientation, gender roles, and occupation: Bias during the selection process?
(1999)
Two studies were conducted examining the relationship between applicant sexual orientation, applicant gender, and hiring bias for stereotypically masculine and feminine jobs. Study 1 examined the job-related traits associated ...
The influence of ratee performance variations on raters' judgments
(1990)
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether prior performance variations within and among job candidates affect evaluations of present performance and whether these variations result in ratings that are exaggerated ...
Individual differences in the perception of confinement
(1995)
There has been an abundance of research on people in confined environments. However, when investigating the negative effects associated with working or living in confined environments, the literature has generally tended ...
Social-collaborative complexity of work: Implications for ability test validities
(1993)
The social, collaborative, interpersonal, and interdependence demands of jobs, referred to as social-collaborative complexity (SCC), are rapidly expanding in the work place. One implication for human resources research is ...
Performance cue effects in work behavior ratings: Memory or response bias?
(1991)
This study examined whether a memory or response bias mediated the effects of performance cues on observers' recollections of a work group's behavior. Fifty-nine subjects observed a film of a group at work. Then, immediately ...
The effects of career model prototypicality and age on children's occupational gender stereotypes and career interest
(1997)
The present study examined nontraditional career modeling from the perspective of social categorization and subtyping theories. Its main objective was to isolate the discrete, additive, and interactive effects of the ...
The effects of feedback type and feedback sign on performance
(1997)
This study investigated feedback sign's relationship with performance, satisfaction, and self-efficacy. It was expected that the magnitude of feedback sign's influence would differ by feedback type, personality, and with ...
Are four heads better than one? Comparing groups and individuals on behavioral rating accuracy
(1991)
The main objective of this research was to determine whether differences between group and individual accuracy on behavioral rating tasks are due to differences in memory sensitivity or to systematic differences in the ...
Cognitive biases in the estimation of project completion time
(1992)
This dissertation reports the results of two experiments that examined potential explanations for the underestimation of project completion time. Experiment 1 examined whether estimators pay attention to important task ...
Receiving feedback in a social context: The role of goal-orientation
(1999)
The present study examined the relationship between feedback and subsequent task performance in a social context. Participants performed three trials of a decision-making task interrupted by two group discussion periods. ...