Abstract:In a context of increasing expectations of gender equality in Western societies, exploring what may modulate people’s trust in evidence of gender discrimination against women is crucial to the deployment of corrective policies. Here, we explore one potentially powerful source of variation in how people evaluate such evidence: their level of moral commitment to gender equality. Across six experiments (N = 2861), we focus on perceptions of scientific reports of discriminatory hiring practices in academic setting… Show more
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