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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 6, 815-825 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167202289010

Formal and Interpersonal Discrimination: A Field Study of Bias Toward Homosexual Applicants

Michelle R. Hebl

Rice University, hebl{at}rice.edu

Jessica Bigazzi Foster

Rice University

Laura M. Mannix

Rice University

John F. Dovidio

Colgate University

The current research studies discrimination from the perspective of people in stigmatized roles in actual employment settings. Confederates, who were portrayed as being homosexual or not, applied for jobs at local stores. Measures of formal bias (e.g., job offers), interpersonal behavior (e.g., length of interactions), and perceptions of bias (e.g., anticipated job offers by applicants) were assessed. Although confederates portrayed as homosexual were not discriminated against in formal ways relative to confederate applicants not presented as gay, they were responded to significantly more negatively in interpersonal ways. Moreover, there was a stronger relationship between interpersonal treatment and anticipated employment actions for confederates than there was between interpersonal responses and actual job offers by employers. These findings reveal the dynamics of the development of different impressions and expectations by stigmatizers and targets. Theoretical and practical implications are considered.


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