Uncovering Ethnic Discrimination: Using Distraction to Detect Hidden Bias in Economics Games

• In Event: Experiments in Intergroup Relations and Trust

Brief Overview

This study tests whether self-monitoring and social desirability concerns mask evidence of ethnic bias in dictator games. The experiment does so by randomly inducing cognitive load through a concurrent distraction task.

Authors

• Jennifer Hamilton, University of California-Los Angeles

• Chad Hazlett, University of California-Los Angeles

• Daniel N Posner, University of California-Los Angeles