Descriptive statistics for the negativity present condition are presented in Table 1, Panel B. As
shown, under the NSL Dominates condition where Manager A underperforms on all of the SL
measures, the mean evaluation difference score is 2.86, which is significantly less than 0 (tstatistic
of6.37, one-tailed p-value , 0.0001). Under the SL Dominates condition where Manager
A underperforms on all of the NSL measures, the mean evaluation difference score is1.28, which
is significantly less than 0 (t-statistic of 3.31, one-tailed p-value , 0.003).