Economic inequality is a main issue in current societies, and it affects people’s psychological processes. In this research, we propose that perceived economic inequality might affect how people perceive men and women. In two experiments carried out in Spain (N = 170) and Mexico (N = 215), we tested whether high (vs. low) economic inequality leads to changes in the perceived agency and communion of both men and women. Our findings suggest that when economic inequality is high (vs. low), the communal content in social perceptions of both men and women decreases. Specifically, under high (vs. low) inequality, the difference in agency and communion ascribed to a man becomes greater (i.e., men are perceived as even more agentic than communal), whereas this difference becomes smaller for women (i.e., women are still perceived as more communal than agentic, but this difference is smaller). We discuss these findings’ implications regarding the psychosocial effects of economic inequality.

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经济不平等塑造了性别刻板印象的代理-交流内容

经济不平等是当今社会的一个主要问题，它影响着人们的心理过程。在这项研究中，我们提出感知到的经济不平等可能会影响人们对男性和女性的看法。在西班牙（N = 170）和墨西哥（N= 215），我们测试了高（相对于低）经济不平等是否会导致男性和女性的感知能动性和交流发生变化。我们的研究结果表明，当经济不平等程度较高（相对于较低程度）时，男性和女性的社会认知中的共同内容都会减少。具体来说，在高度（相对于低）不平等的情况下，归属于男性的能动性和交流差异变得更大（即，男性被认为比公共性更具能动性），而女性的这种差异变得更小（即女性仍然被认为比代理更公共，但这种差异更小）。我们讨论了这些发现对经济不平等的社会心理影响的影响。