Correspondence Christopher D. Petsko, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208. Email: petsko@u.northwestern.edu Abstract Stereotyping plays an important role in how we perceive the members of social groups. Yet stereotyping is complicated by the fact that every individual simultaneously belongs to multiple social groups. For example, the stereotypes that are called to mind about a Black individual can vary depending on that person's age, gender, and sexual orientation. This phenomenon—termed intersectional stereotyping—has recently inspired a variety of intriguing research findings. But these research findings pose challenges for prevalent theories of stereotyping. These prevalent theories tend to argue either that (a) perceivers inevitably attend to certain social identities (e.g., gender) when stereotyping intersectional targets, or that (b) perceivers inevitably attend to all detectable social identities at once. In contrast to these perspectives, we argue that perceivers generally attend to just one social identity (or one intersection of identities) at a time when stereotyping intersectional targets, as a function of the social context. For example, gay Black men can be alternately stereotyped as gay people, as Black people, as men, or as gay Black men specifically. The approach described here can account for a diverse array of findings emerging from research on intersectional stereotyping. Moreover, by specifying the factors that render particular identities salient in the minds of social perceivers, this approach offers clear and falsifiable predictions regarding the situated stereotyping of multifaceted individuals. DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12518

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多人感知：社交感知者如何管理交叉目标的复杂性

通讯克里斯托弗·D·佩茨科（Christopher D. Petsko），西北大学心理学系，伊利诺伊州埃文斯顿，谢里丹路2029号，邮编60208。但是，每个人同时属于多个社会群体这一事实使定型观念变得复杂。例如，关于黑人的刻板印象可能会因其年龄，性别和性取向而异。最近，这种现象被称为交叉定型观念，激发了许多有趣的研究发现。但是这些研究发现给定型观念的流行理论带来了挑战。这些普遍的理论倾向于争论以下两种情况：（a）感知者不可避免地会关注某些社会身份（例如，性别）时，定型交叉目标，或（b）感知者不可避免地立即关注所有可检测的社会身份。与这些观点相反，我们认为，感知者通常在定型相交目标时，会根据社会环境而只关注一个社会身份（或一个身份交集）。例如，同性恋黑人可以替代地定型为同性恋者，黑人，男性或同性恋同性恋者。这里描述的方法可以解释交叉定型研究中出现的各种发现。此外，通过指定使特定身份在社会感知者的脑海中凸显的因素，这种方法就多方面个人的定型刻板印象提供了清晰可证的预测。