{
  "title": "Selection criteria: what merit alone cannot guarantee",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/criteres-de-selection-ce-que-le-merite-ne-suffit-pas-a-garantir-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-04-27",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Saying that a choice is based on merit does not make its criteria stable. Research invites us to examine when those criteria are defined and what causes them to change.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Decision-making",
  "place": {
    "name": "Fribourg",
    "region": "Fribourg",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Eric Luis Uhlmann and Geoffrey L."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism: acceptable reasons for a biased choice",
      "point": "Michael I."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that a framework agreed in advance makes every selection impartial."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence does not guarantee",
      "point": "These experiments isolate a mechanism under controlled conditions; they do not establish the size of its effect in recruitment in Fribourg."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Fribourg",
      "point": "For recruitment in the agri-food sector, a bilingual industrial company or a team connected to Fribourg’s university hub, record the criteria, their relative importance and the evidence required to assess them before opening applications."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Cohen",
      "year": "2005",
      "source": "Psychological Science"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Darley",
      "year": "2004",
      "source": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 438,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-editorial-2026-04-27-en.jpg?v=4",
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    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/criteres-de-selection-ce-que-le-merite-ne-suffit-pas-a-garantir-en",
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    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/criteres-de-selection-ce-que-le-merite-ne-suffit-pas-a-garantir-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/prise-de-decision/fribourg",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/fribourg",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}