“Intersectional Implicit Bias: Evidence for Asymmetrically Compounding Bias and the Predominance of Target Gender”, Paul Connor, Matthew Weeks, Jack Glaser, Serena Chen, Dacher Keltner2022-05-19 (cognitive bias)⁠:

[appendix] Little is known about implicit evaluations of complex, multiply categorizable social targets.

Across 5 studies (n = 5,204), we investigated implicit evaluations of targets varying in race, gender, social class, and age.

Overall, the largest and most consistent evaluative bias was pro-women/anti-men bias, followed by smaller but nonetheless consistent pro-upper-class/anti-lower-class biases. By contrast, we observed less consistent effects of targets’ race, no effects of targets’ age, and no consistent interactions between target-level categories.

An integrative data analysis highlighted a number of moderating factors, but a stable pro-women/anti-men and pro-upper-class/anti-lower-class bias across demographic groups.

Overall, these results suggest that implicit biases compound across multiple categories asymmetrically, with a dominant category (here, gender) largely driving evaluations, and ancillary categories (here, social class and race) exerting relatively smaller additional effects. We discuss potential implications of this work for understanding how implicit biases operate in real-world social settings.

[Keywords: implicit bias, intersectionality, social class, person perception, social cognition]

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