The current research investigates people’s attitudes toward an ambiguous situation of police violence against a woman suspect. We hypothesize that the suspect’s race and participants’ ambivalent sexism, particularly benevolent sexism, will jointly inform perceptions of the suspect’s femininity, and in turn, perceptions of the suspect’s pain, judgments of who is to blame, and perceptions the officer was justified in using force against the suspect. Across two studies, we found support for our hypotheses: participants who reported more benevolent sexism thought the suspect were more feminine, but this association was only present when the suspect was White, as opposed to Black. Perceived femininity, in turn, predicted perceptions the suspect felt more pain, was less blameworthy for the situation, and perceptions that the officer’s use of force was less justified (Study 2).

当前的研究调查了人们对于警察针对一名女性嫌疑犯的暴力行为的模棱两可的态度。我们假设犯罪嫌疑人的种族和参与者的矛盾的性别歧视，特别是仁慈的性别歧视，将共同影响对犯罪嫌疑人的女性气质的认识，进而对犯罪嫌疑人的痛苦，对谁应承担责任的判断以及军官使用武器的理智认识强行对付嫌疑犯 在两项研究中，我们发现了我们的假设：报告更多仁慈的性别歧视的参与者认为犯罪嫌疑人更女性化，但是这种关联仅在犯罪嫌疑人是白人而不是黑人时才存在。反过来，女性气质则可以预测犯罪嫌疑人会感到更多痛苦的感觉，而对这种情况的应责程度则较低，