Professionals often attribute applicants' success to personal traits, not circumstance

Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - 16:31 in Psychology & Sociology

Professionals evaluating graduate school or job applicants frequently attribute applicants' credentials to their personal qualities rather than their circumstances, according to research published July 24 in the open access journal PLoS ONE by Samuel Swift from the University of California, Berkeley and colleagues from other institutions.

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