Across the country, most employers have signed a fair recruitment agreement. It requires interview decisions to be based only on applicants' skills and experience. Other employers and both of her managers tell Nadia, a business owner, that rejecting someone because of a mental health diagnosis is unacceptable.
Nadia privately believes that people who have experienced depression are unreliable. During a recruitment meeting with her managers, she follows the agreement and offers a job to the applicant with the highest interview score, who has previously experienced depression. Later, when making a recruitment decision alone, Nadia rejects another suitable applicant because they have experienced depression.
Using the source, explain how majority influence could reduce discrimination against people who have experienced depression.
In your answer, refer to Nadia's decisions when she is with her managers and when she is alone.
26 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 4.3 Application: Changing attitudes, covering 4.3.1 Minority influence and social change and 4.3.2 Majority influence and social change. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.