ArticleCognitive research: principles and implications2018
Audiovisual quality impacts assessments of job candidates in video interviews: Evidence for an AV quality bias.
Article in Cognitive research: principles and implications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Effect of teleconferencing variables on faculty impression of mock residency applicants.Global surgical education : journal of the Association for Surgical Education · 2022Article
- Answering a factual question today increases one's confidence in the same answer tomorrow - independent of fluency.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Article
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Abstract
Video job interviews have become a common hiring practice, allowing employers to save money and recruit from a wider applicant pool. But differences in job candidates' internet connections mean that some interviews will have higher audiovisual (AV) quality than others. We hypothesized that interviewers would be impacted by AV quality when they rated job candidates. In two experiments, participants viewed two-minute long simulated Skype interviews that were either unedited (fluent videos) or edited to mimic the effects of a poor internet connection (disfluent videos). Participants in both experiments rated job candidates from fluent videos as more hirable, even after being explicitly told to disregard AV quality (experiment 2). Our findings suggest that video interviews may favor job candidates with better internet connections and that being aware of this bias does not make it go away.
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