APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Partisan Discrimination in Peer Evaluations for Internship Opportunity

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Social

  • 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

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