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This seminar with Harvard Business School professor Katherine Coffman explores how information acquisition decisions impact candidate evaluations. She presents results from research she co-authored, based on an experiment where evaluators received group-level information on performance and the opportunity to acquire additional, individual-level performance information before making a final evaluation. The results show that, on average, evaluators under-acquire individual-level information, leading to more stereotypical evaluations of candidates. This leads to under-recognition of talented candidates from comparatively weaker groups and over-selection of untalented candidates from comparatively stronger groups.

This seminar was part of WAPPP's spring 2026 series Fairness and Meritocracy at Work, chaired by WAPPP co-director Iris Bohnet.