Blinded versus Unblinded Review: A Field Study on the Equity of Peer-Review Processes

The preregistration for the study can be found on the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/b69ty/). Deidentified survey data and analyses are at the Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/vepwf/. Because of concerns about identifiability, the authors cannot make the submission data publicly available. The authors thank Matthew Paronto for helping administer the study; Bob Burnham for programming the submission system; Abigail Bergman, Dorothy Tang and Lily Vag-Urminsky for helping collect the publication data; Deepti Poluru for assistance with coding; the anonymous faculty, post docs, and graduate students who evaluated the talks; and the undergraduate research assistants that diligently collected data on the talks. The authors greatly appreciate Naveen Vardhineni’s work in developing software to count the appearances of authors and institutions in past Society for Judgment and Decision Making conferences and for Apramay Mishra’s work in helping check the reliability of those counts. The authors also thank the Executive Board of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making for permission to run this study. The authors thank Drs. Donna Ginther, Ralph Hertwig, and Thomas Wallsten for critical feedback on early drafts of this paper.