title: Conformity under uncertainty: reliance on gender stereotypes in online hiring decisions.
abstract: We apply Bentley et al.'s theoretical framework to better understand gender discrimination in online labor markets. Although such settings are designed to encourage employer behavior in the northwest corner of Homo economicus, actual online hiring decisions tend to drift southeast into a "confirmation bias plus weak feedback loops" pattern of discrimination based on inaccurate social stereotypes.
authors.affiliation: Management and Human Resources Department, HEC Paris - School of Management, 78351 Jouy-en-Josas, France. eric.luis.uhlmann@gmail.com http://www.socialjudgments.com/
authors.forename: Eric Luis
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Uhlmann
authors.affiliation: Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 2AG, United Kingdom. rts27@cam.ac.uk http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/research-mphils-phd/phd/phd-students-a-z/raphael-silberzahn/
authors.forename: Raphael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Silberzahn
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D012919:Social Behavior; D060756:Social Networking