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 29 Mar 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
- Type
- Seminar
- Room
- M1-04
- Building
- Van der Goot Building
Perception of uncertainty
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.
Research design
We propose a research design to understand the role of ambiguity attitudes when gender is a source of uncertainty, the dynamics of ambiguity attitudes about this source and its influence on information search.
