Social identities are inherently intersectional, and some of these intersections bias social perception. For example, overlapping stereotypes about race and gender categories enable perceivers to efficiently judge Black targets as male and Asian targets as female. Here, we extend these intersections to a third fundamental social category dimension—age. Two studies revealed that facial cues to race and gender interactively guide age judgments, such that Black targets are judged to be masculine and therefore older whereas Asian targets judged to be feminine and therefore younger than age-matched White controls. These effects were most pronounced for male targets, which is consistent with affordance theories proposing that intersecting race, gender, and age cues are particularly salient for men due to stereotypical associations with threat. Collectively, the present findings provide new theoretical information and highlight future research directions related to intersectional categories in social perception.

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种族和性别互动的面部提示指导年龄判断

社会身份在本质上是交叉的，并且其中一些交叉偏向于社会认知。例如，关于种族和性别类别的重叠刻板印象使感知者能够有效地将黑人目标定为男性，将亚洲目标定为女性。在这里，我们将这些交叉点扩展到第三个基本的社会类别维度-年龄。两项研究表明，种族和性别的面部提示可交互指导年龄判断，例如黑人目标被认为是男性，因此年龄较大，而亚洲目标被认为是女性，因此比年龄相称的白人对照年轻。这些影响对男性目标最为明显，这与可承受性理论相吻合，该理论认为相交的种族，性别和年龄提示对男性特别显着，原因是其与威胁有成见。