Hiring professionals are frequently under pressure to discriminate against specific groups to ensure "fit" with colleagues - with around 28 percent of clients making overt requests to avoid hiring from certain groups - and are vulnerable to accommodating such biases
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Article Title: Individual variation in role construal predicts responses to third-party biases in hiring contexts
Funding: Study 2 was funded by the 2018 James L. Outtz Grant for Research on Organizational Diversity (Society for Industrial/ Organizational Psychology; http://www.siop.org ), granted to A.V. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0244393
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