APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Partisan Discrimination in Peer Evaluations for Internship Opportunity
- Luke Hartvigsen
College of William and Mary - Robert Ridge
Brigham Young University - James Sanford
Brigham Young University
Abstract
University students (N=247) evaluated applications in an internship evaluation experiment. Applications were identical except for political party identification. We found a small effect that both liberal and conservative participants rated contra-ideological applicants as less suitable for an internship opportunity than applicants who share their ideological views.
Politics