A Manager Must Choose Between a White Job Applicant and a Black

question 7

Multiple Choice

A manager must choose between a White job applicant and a Black job applicant. The two applicants have equal qualifications, but those qualifications are mixed: Both are high on some desirable characteristics but low on others. The theory of aversive prejudice would predict that the manager would

• A) choose the White applicant because they could rationalize their rejection of the Black applicant on the basis of the applicant's negative characteristics.
• B) choose the Black applicant out of concern that choosing the White applicant would make them appear to be prejudiced.
• C) choose the Black applicant because the manager's egalitarian values would lead them to perceive the Black applicant's positive characteristics as more positive than the White applicant's positive characteristics.
• D) use some random procedure to choose between the two applicants because they are equally qualified.

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