Studies in the field have suggested that subjects update differently when judging about women and men in certain gendered tasks (Bohren et al., 2019; Sarsons, 2019), while experimental studies using fixed information settings argue that neither prior beliefs (Campos-Mercade & Mengel, 2021) nor asymmetric updating (Coffman,2020) can explain this phenomenon.
- Speaker
- Date
- Wednesday 27 Sep 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
- Type
- Seminar
- Room
- T3-13
- Building
- Mandeville Building
An overlooked aspect in these studies is that the judge’s attitudes toward uncertainty as beliefs about the task affinity to certain gender might shape the perception of uncertainty. In an online experiment we evaluated how allowing the judges to sample information about a randomly assigned profile consisting of major and gender, changes uncertainty attitudes.
We explore which characteristic of the profile and judges affects initial and change in uncertainty attitudes.
