9 citations · 14 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for
7 papers
AI Alignment Amplifies the Role of Race, Gender, and Disability in Hiring Decisions
Ze Wang, Guobin Shen, Michael Thaler
Humans increasingly delegate consequential decisions to language models, yet whether these systems reproduce or reshape human patterns of discrimination remains unclear. Here, acro…
JobFair: A Framework for Benchmarking Gender Hiring Bias in Large Language Models
Ze Wang, Zekun Wu, Xin Guan +6
The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in hiring has led to legislative actions to protect vulnerable demographic groups. This paper presents a novel framework for benchmarking hi…
The Supply of Motivated Beliefs
Michael Thaler
When people choose what messages to send to others, they often consider how others will interpret the messages. A sender may expect a receiver to engage in motivated reasoning, lea…
Overinference from Weak Signals and Underinference from Strong Signals
Ned Augenblick, Eben Lazarus, Michael Thaler
When people receive new information, sometimes they revise their beliefs too much, and sometimes too little. In this paper, we show that a key driver of whether people overinfer or…
The Fake News Effect: Experimentally Identifying Motivated Reasoning Using Trust in News
Michael Thaler
Motivated reasoning posits that people distort how they process information in the direction of beliefs they find attractive. This paper creates a novel experimental design to iden…
Good News Is Not a Sufficient Condition for Motivated Reasoning
Michael Thaler
People often receive good news that makes them feel better about the world around them, or bad news that makes them feel worse about it. This paper studies how the valence of news…
Gender Differences in Motivated Reasoning
Michael Thaler
Men and women systematically differ in their beliefs about their performance relative to others; in particular, men tend to be more overconfident. This paper provides support for o…