Research Report: Implicit and Explicit Measures of Sexism Predicting Men’s Interviewing Behaviors

Abstract

Implicit (Indirect measures of bias often capturing unconscious biases such as eye tracking) and explicit (direct survey measures capturing conscious biases such as the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI): Glick and Fiske, 2001) sexism were measured in men who then interviewed a female job seeker. The results of this study examined explicit outcomes of the interviews (ratings) as well as implicit outcomes (non-verbal behaviors). Higher levels of implicit gender bias (Eye tracking) was significantly related to the outcomes and was a better predictor of sexist non-verbal behaviors than the explicit measure.