The theory of intersectionality posits that people possess multiple identities varying in the level of privilege and oppression. The current study assesses participants’ prosocial behavior toward a target possessing sexual, disability, and gender minority identities. Prosociality was measured using the validated and reliable dictator game. The authors predicted that targets with increased minority identities would receive less prosocial behavior from their partner than targets with fewer intersecting identities. Contrary to our hypothesis, it was found that participants were significantly more prosocial toward targets with a disability, than toward targets without. Consistent with our hypothesis, these researchers found that participants were significantly less likely to be prosocial toward targets who were gay than straight. These results have implications for rehabilitation counselors working with clients with intersecting marginalized identities. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to experimentally explore observed prosocial behavior toward individuals with intersecting gender, disability, and sexual minority identities.

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性取向、残疾和性别认同对其他人亲社会行为的影响

交叉性理论假定人们拥有多重身份，特权和压迫程度各不相同。当前的研究评估了参与者对拥有性、残疾和性别少数身份的目标的亲社会行为。亲社会性是使用经过验证且可靠的独裁者游戏来衡量的。作者预测，与具有较少交叉身份的目标相比，少数族裔身份增加的目标会从他们的伴侣那里得到更少的亲社会行为。与我们的假设相反，发现参与者对有残疾的目标比对没有残疾的目标更亲社会。与我们的假设一致，这些研究人员发现，参与者对同性恋对象的亲社会倾向明显低于异性恋对象。这些结果对与具有交叉边缘化身份的客户一起工作的康复顾问有影响。据作者所知，这是第一项通过实验探索观察到的针对具有交叉性别、残疾和性少数身份的个体的亲社会行为的研究。