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Date Permissions Signed
4-28-2021
Date of Award
Spring 2021
Document Type
Masters Thesis
Department or Program Affiliation
Experimental Psychology
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Lemm, Kristi M., 1971-
Second Advisor
Mallinckrodt, Brent
Third Advisor
Czopp, Alex
Abstract
We investigated how a disclosure of an applicant’s blindness would influence evaluations of applicants to a scholarship and whether disclosure early or late in the impression formation process would result in optimal application outcomes. A total of 356 participants read profiles of applicants whose qualifications were clearly strong, clearly weak, or mixed (diligent but unintelligent, or intelligent but lazy). Participants were told that the applicant was blind either at the at the beginning or at the end, or no disability was disclosed. We found that surprisingly, blind applicants were rated more positively than those without a disclosure, and the benefit of disclosing blindness was particularly salient when the applicants’ qualifications were weak or ambiguous. The results suggest that the benefit of disclosing blindness at the end of impression formation is better than doing it at the beginning of impression formation.
Type
Text
Keywords
Disability Disclosure
Publisher
Western Washington University
OCLC Number
1250320967
Subject – LCSH
Students with disabilities--Scholarships, fellowships, etc.; People with disabilities--Education (Higher); Discrimination against people with disabilities; Discrimination in employment
Format
application/pdf
Genre/Form
masters theses
Language
English
Rights
Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.
Recommended Citation
Yin, Yichuan, "Barriers to Educational Resources: The Effect of Disability Disclosure on Ratings of a Scholarship Applicant" (2021). WWU Graduate School Collection. 1016.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/1016