High-Status Teammates: Award Evaluation in the National Basketball Association
研究利用NBA数据发现，高地位队友在奖项评估的第一阶段能提升同事的可见度，但在第二阶段却可能降低同事获奖概率，揭示了团队内地位不对称导致的评估偏见。
Social evaluations proceed in stages. First, judges filter a broad pool of candidates and pick a subset for detailed assessment. Then, the chosen group undergoes a closer examination, during which winners are selected. At both stages of the process, judges are susceptible to bias. Bias is especially commonplace when contenders work in teams because each team member’s merit can be hard to distinguish from that of others. Our paper investigates evaluation bias originating in intrateam status asymmetries. Using the National Basketball Association’s data, we explore how high-status teammates are associated with their colleagues’ chances of winning awards. We find that bias stemming from high-status teammates’ presence is beneficial to their colleagues in the first stage of evaluations because high-status actors increase their team members ‘visibility to judges. However, our results also show that in the second stage of evaluations, the presence of high-status teammates could decrease their colleagues’ chances of winning awards because lower-status actors might seem less worthy of awards when evaluated alongside high-status individuals. Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2020.13917 .