bias in hiring, crab effect, crab mentality, envy, jealousy, spite

Crab Mentality: The ‘Crabs in a Bucket’ Analogy

When someone else achieves tremendous success or progresses, others sometimes underestimate that person or their accomplishments. And this is when the crab mentality takes action.  The crab mentality occurs when the group opposes and blocks the progress of any members who achieve more tremendous success than themselves, whether via envy, spite, or competitiveness. People with ...

Viena Abdon

A crab.

Study Shows Class Bias in Hiring Based on a Few Seconds of Speech

Candidates at job interviews expect to be evaluated on their experience, conduct, and ideas, but a new study by Yale researchers provides evidence that interviewees are judged based on their social status seconds after they start to speak, a form of bias in hiring. The study, to be published in the Proceedings of the National ...

Troy Oakes

A job interview.