Moreno-Bella Eva, Willis Guillermo B, Moya Miguel
Department of Social Psychology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Front Psychol. 2019 Jul 30;10:1590. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01590. eCollection 2019.
Previous studies have shown that economic inequality influences psychological processes. In this article, we argue that economic inequality also makes masculine attributes more prototypical. In Study 1 ( = 106), using an experimental design, we showed that individuals belonging to a society characterized by a higher level of economic inequality are perceived as more masculine than feminine. Study 2 ( = 75) shows, also experimentally, that the upper social class is perceived mostly in terms of masculine traits, and that this effect is greater when economic inequality is relatively high. Conversely, the lower social class is more clearly perceived in terms of feminine traits. These results inform our understanding of the impact of economic inequality on social perception.
先前的研究表明，经济不平等会影响心理过程。在本文中，我们认为经济不平等还会使男性特质更具典型性。在研究1（N = 106）中，我们采用实验设计表明，处于经济不平等程度较高社会中的个体被认为更具男性气质而非女性气质。研究2（N = 75）同样通过实验表明，社会上层阶级大多被认为具有男性特质，而且当经济不平等程度相对较高时，这种效应会更强。相反，社会下层阶级在女性特质方面的认知更为明显。这些结果有助于我们理解经济不平等对社会认知的影响。
