Stereotypes are cognitive constructs that make available a suite of traits and behaviors relevant to a social target. However, they also fuel social biases against social targets based on their perceived social group membership. Traditional approaches to social bias reduction focus primarily on the affective component—prejudice—on cognitive control as a regulatory tool, and on changing stereotype content. Here, I focus instead on changing the initial categorization processes, moving away from stereotype activation to trait inferences during person perception. Specifically, I argue that traits, another cognitive construct, can be promoted instead as the default social categorization. This can occur if cultural narratives highlight behavior rather than social groups, making trait inferences more salient as an initial categorization process rather than stereotype activation.

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在人的感知过程中利用文化叙事促进特质推断而不是刻板印象激活

刻板印象是认知结构，可提供与社会目标相关的一系列特征和行为。然而，他们也基于他们感知的社会群体成员资格而加剧对社会目标的社会偏见。传统的减少社会偏见的方法主要关注情感成分——偏见——作为监管工具的认知控制，以及改变刻板印象的内容。在这里，我将重点放在改变最初的分类过程，从刻板印象激活转移到人感知过程中的特质推断。具体来说，我认为特征，另一种认知结构，可以作为默认的社会分类来推广。如果文化叙事强调行为而不是社会群体，就会发生这种情况，