Multifarious person perception: How social perceivers manage the complexity of intersectional targets

Petsko, Christopher D.; Bodenhausen, Galen V.

doi:10.1111/spc3.12518

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“…For example, Middle-Eastern and Asian Americans are stereotyped as rich while Black and Latino Americans are stereotyped as poor (Ghavami & Peplau, 2013); we found the greatest gender differences in the targets that are stereotyped as wealthier. More research is needed on non-prototypical groups more broadly to understand when individuals default to stereotypes about one identity over another (Petsko & Bodenhausen, 2020).…”

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Sexual Orientation and Race Intersectionally Reduce the Perceived Gendered Nature of Normative Stereotypes in the United States

Stj¹,

Ghani²

2021

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There is substantial research on the nature and impact of gender prescriptive stereotypes. However, there has been relatively little work on whether these stereotypes are equally applicable to men and women of different identities. Across two studies (total N = 1074), we assessed gender prescriptive stereotypes intersectionality in an American context, for men and women of different sexual orientations (Study 1) and races (Study 2). Results show strong evidence of a straight-centric bias, as prescriptive stereotypes of men and women most closely aligned with those of straight men and women, but limited evidence for a White-centric bias. Furthermore, observed gender differences in prescriptive stereotypes were smaller or non-existent for sexual and ethnic minority targets compared to straight and White targets, suggesting that theories around the dyadic nature of gender stereotypes between men and women might be restricted to straight and White men and women.

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Sexual Orientation and Race Intersectionally Reduce the Perceived Gendered Nature of Normative Stereotypes in the United States

Stj¹,

Ghani²

2021

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“…Recent accounts of intersectional stereotyping suggest that perceivers may engage in intersectional stereotyping in a compartmentalized way-meaning perceivers sometimes attend to race alone, at other times they attend to gender alone, and at still other times they attend to intersections specifically (e.g., race and gender simultaneously; Petsko & Bodenhausen, 2020).…”

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Is Men's Heterosexuality Perceived as More Precarious than Women's? An Intersectional, Race-by-Gender Analysis

Petsko¹,

Silva²,

Vogler³

2021

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In the United States, people perceive men’s masculinity to be more precarious, or easier to lose, than women’s femininity. In the present manuscript, we investigated (1) whether men’s heterosexuality is likewise perceived to be more precarious than women’s, and if so, (2) whether this effect is exaggerated when the targets in question are Black rather than White. To investigate these questions, we conducted a large-scale (N = 3,010), nationally representative experiment in which participants read about a target person who either did or did not engage in a single same-sex sexual behavior. Results revealed that participants questioned the heterosexuality of men more than the heterosexuality of women when they engaged (vs. did not engage) in a same-sex sexual behavior. Surprisingly, these effects were not moderated by whether targets were Black vs. White. In other words, men’s heterosexuality was indeed perceived to be more precarious than women’s, irrespective of targets’ race.

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“…Accordingly, we expect stereotypes about intersectional categories, which we term intersectional stereotypes (cf. Petsko & Bodenhausen, 2019), to shape higher-order social perception (i.e., stereotyping).…”

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“…Intersectional stereotypes, over and above singular-category stereotypes, can impact racial stereotyping (cf. Caraves, 2018;Goff et al, 2008;Petsko & Bodenhausen, 2019). Ameliorating perceptions and judgments of Black space targets, then, might require antidotes for both the impoverished image of Black space and the diffuse image of middle-class Black space.…”

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Inconceivable Middle-Class Black Space: The Architecture and Consequences of Space-Focused Stereotype Content at the Race–Class Nexus

Yantis

Bonam

2020

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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White Americans tend to stereotype a Black neighborhood as lower class and less desirable than a similar White neighborhood. A strong mental image of Black areas, in general, as lower class and undesirable contributes to this perceptual race-gap. The present studies show that a weak mental image of middle-class Black space as middle class and desirable may also contribute. First, stereotype content analyses reveal how Whites’ diffuse mental image of middle-class Black space— rundown, suburban, clean, crime-ridden—overlaps with both Black and middle-class space stereotypes. Second, the more difficulty Whites experience imagining middle-class Black space as invariably middle class and desirable, the more likely they are to stereotype a Black (vs. White) neighborhood as low quality, feel less connected to it, and devalue a house there. Whites’ diffuse mental image of middle-class Black space may thus contribute to ongoing racial injustices (e.g., wealth disparities, residential segregation).

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Multifarious person perception: How social perceivers manage the complexity of intersectional targets

Abstract: Stereotyping plays an important role in how we perceive the members of social groups. Yet stereotyping is complicated by

Cited by 56 publications

References 77 publications

Sexual Orientation and Race Intersectionally Reduce the Perceived Gendered Nature of Normative Stereotypes in the United States

Sexual Orientation and Race Intersectionally Reduce the Perceived Gendered Nature of Normative Stereotypes in the United States

Is Men's Heterosexuality Perceived as More Precarious than Women's? An Intersectional, Race-by-Gender Analysis

Inconceivable Middle-Class Black Space: The Architecture and Consequences of Space-Focused Stereotype Content at the Race–Class Nexus

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