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The Roles of Gender and Affirmative Action Attitude in Reactions to Test Score Use Methods 1
Author(s) -
Truxillo Donald M.,
Bauer Talya N.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2000.tb02469.x
Subject(s) - affirmative action , psychology , social psychology , attractiveness , test (biology) , selection (genetic algorithm) , action (physics) , law , political science , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science , psychoanalysis , biology
The present study explored the effects of 2 variables, affirmative action (AA) attitude and gender, on reactions to 3 test score use (TSU) methods: top‐down selection. banding with random selection, and banding with preferences. In a study of 94 upper‐division and graduate business students, AA attitude was associated with different reactions to TSU methods in terms of fairness and organizational attractiveness. Moreover, women with negative AA attitudes and men rated banding with preferences lower than the other two methods, but women with positive AA attitudes did not Results are discussed in terms of applicant reactions models, implications for organizations and future research.