Marshall Matters

A complete web application to study subconscious biases in business decision making

See the experiment here: https://marshallmatters.netlify.com/

Overview

Do people really make business decisions based on what they say they do?

This experiment puts that to the test by simulating a hiring scenario where the user (experimentee) is the hiring manager.

1. First the user indicates which candidate traits they believe are relevant to job success.
2. Next the user is given a distraction exercise.
3. Then the user gets to see information about the hypothetical job candidates. The application secretly monitors how long the user looks at different information about the candidates.
4. Lastly the user chooses a candidate for the job.

Libraries

• Express Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js
• mysql Pure node.js JavaScript Client implementing the MySQL protocol.
• client-sessions Connect middleware that implements sessions in encrypted tamper-free cookies.
• js-cookie A simple, lightweight JavaScript API for handling cookies
• Helmet Security for Express by setting various HTTP headers
• email-validator
• email-existence

Contributors

• This research experiment was lead by Scott Wiltermuth and Cheryl Wakslak of USC Marshall School of Business
• Built by AG Liber