TY - JOUR
T1 - Intersectional Implicit Bias
T2 - Evidence for Asymmetrically Compounding Bias and the Predominance of Target Gender
AU - Connor, Paul
AU - Weeks, Matthew
AU - Glaser, Jack
AU - Chen, Serena
AU - Keltner, Dacher
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 American Psychological Association
PY - 2022/5/19
Y1 - 2022/5/19
N2 - Little is known about implicit evaluations of complex, multiply categorizable social targets. Across five studies (N = 5,204), we investigated implicit evaluations of targets varying in race, gender, social class, and age. Overall, the largest and most consistent evaluative bias was pro-women/anti-men bias, followed by smaller but nonetheless consistent pro-upper-class/anti-lower-class biases. By contrast, we observed less consistent effects of targets’ race, no effects of targets’ age, and no consistent interactions between targetlevel categories. An integrative data analysis highlighted a number of moderating factors, but a stable prowomen/ anti-men and pro-upper-class/anti-lower-class bias across demographic groups. Overall, these results suggest that implicit biases compound across multiple categories asymmetrically, with a dominant category (here, gender) largely driving evaluations, and ancillary categories (here, social class and race) exerting relatively smaller additional effects.
AB - Little is known about implicit evaluations of complex, multiply categorizable social targets. Across five studies (N = 5,204), we investigated implicit evaluations of targets varying in race, gender, social class, and age. Overall, the largest and most consistent evaluative bias was pro-women/anti-men bias, followed by smaller but nonetheless consistent pro-upper-class/anti-lower-class biases. By contrast, we observed less consistent effects of targets’ race, no effects of targets’ age, and no consistent interactions between targetlevel categories. An integrative data analysis highlighted a number of moderating factors, but a stable prowomen/ anti-men and pro-upper-class/anti-lower-class bias across demographic groups. Overall, these results suggest that implicit biases compound across multiple categories asymmetrically, with a dominant category (here, gender) largely driving evaluations, and ancillary categories (here, social class and race) exerting relatively smaller additional effects.
KW - Implicit bias
KW - Intersectionality
KW - Person perception
KW - Social class
KW - Social cognition
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U2 - 10.1037/pspa0000314
DO - 10.1037/pspa0000314
M3 - Article
C2 - 35587425
AN - SCOPUS:85131749334
SN - 0022-3514
VL - 124
SP - 22
EP - 48
JO - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
IS - 1
ER -