Casuistry and Social Category Bias
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6204481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael I Norton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Joseph A Vandello (0000-0001-9318-4002, University of South Florida), John M Darley (Princeton University) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 817-831 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.87.6.817 |
| PMID | 15598108 |
| OpenAlex | W2146127733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 68 |
| References cited | 65 |
This research explored cases where people are drawn to make judgments between individuals based on questionable criteria, in particular those individuals' social group memberships. We suggest that individuals engage in casuistry to mask biased decision making, by recruiting more acceptable criteria to justify such decisions. We present 6 studies that demonstrate how casuistry licenses people to judge on the basis of social category information but appear unbiased--to both others and themselves--while doing so. In 2 domains (employment and college admissions decisions), with 2 social categories (gender and race), and with 2 motivations (favoring an in-group or out-group), the present studies explored how participants justify decisions biased by social category information by arbitrarily inflating the relative value of their preferred candidates' qualifications over those of competitors
Casuistry · Competitor analysis · Epistemology · Race (biology) · Social category · Social group · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Cultural Differences and Values · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 68 |
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| Citations per year | 2,34 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2026 (30) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 64 |