Lookism is also highly persistent. In two studies, this paper found that educating judges to not bias on looks had no practical impact on the advantages of ‘looking trustworthy’ during sentencing. Then they tried having judges form their decision without looking, but with the opportunity to revise later, and found that this actually increased the bias, as judges would often modify their decisions upon seeing the defendant. People seem to very strongly endorse lookism in practice, no matter what they say in theory.
the methods sections of the paper say study participants were not actual judges, but “US American workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk who participated in exchange for ${1,2}.50.”
(i just ctrl+f’d ‘recruit’ and ‘judges’ though, so i could have missed something)
the methods sections of the paper say study participants were not actual judges, but “US American workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk who participated in exchange for ${1,2}.50.”
(i just ctrl+f’d ‘recruit’ and ‘judges’ though, so i could have missed something)