Does a structured free recall intervention reduce the effect of stereotypes on performance ratings and by what cognitive mechanism?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Baltes, Boris B.; Bauer, Cara B.; Frensch, Peter A.
• 署名单位: Wayne State University; Humboldt University of Berlin
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.1.151
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 151-164
• 关键词: stereotypes; rating biases; PERFORMANCE RATINGS; cognitive mechanisms

摘要

The purpose of this article was to extend previous work on the effect of racial biases on performance ratings. The 1st of 2 studies examined whether a structured free recall intervention decreased the influence of negative racial biases on the performance ratings of Black men. Results indicated that without the intervention, raters who endorsed a negative stereotype of Black men as managers evaluated Black men more negatively. However, the structured free recall intervention successfully reduced these effects. The second study examined in more detail the cognitive mechanisms underlying the success of the intervention. Results are consistent with the assumption that the reduction of the influence of racial biases under structured free recall conditions is a consequence of a modified strength threshold for retrieval of behaviors from memory.