Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48840, USA.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2010 Jun;98(6):933-45. doi: 10.1037/a0017931.
Adopting an evolutionary approach to the psychology of race bias, we posit that intergroup conflict perpetrated by male aggressors throughout human evolutionary history has shaped the psychology of modern forms of intergroup bias and that this psychology reflects the unique adaptive problems that differ between men and women in coping with male aggressors from groups other than one's own. Here we report results across 4 studies consistent with this perspective, showing that race bias is moderated by gender differences in traits relevant to threat responses that differ in their adaptive utility between the sexes-namely, aggression and dominance motives for men and fear of sexual coercion for women. These results are consistent with the notion that the psychology of intergroup bias is generated by different psychological systems for men and women, and the results underscore the importance of considering the gender of the outgroup target as well as the gender of the agent in psychological studies on prejudice and discrimination.
采用进化心理学的方法研究种族偏见，我们认为，在人类进化历史中，男性侵略者引发的群体间冲突塑造了现代形式的群体间偏见心理，这种心理反映了男性和女性在应对来自其他群体的男性侵略者时所面临的独特适应性问题的差异。在这里，我们报告了 4 项研究的结果，这些结果与这一观点一致，表明种族偏见受到与威胁反应相关的性别差异的调节，这些差异在男女两性的适应性方面存在差异，即男性的攻击性和支配性动机，以及女性对性胁迫的恐惧。这些结果与这样一种观点一致，即群体间偏见的心理是由男性和女性不同的心理系统产生的，这些结果强调了在关于偏见和歧视的心理学研究中，不仅要考虑外群体目标的性别，还要考虑行为者的性别。
