Higginbotham Gerald D, Shropshire Jessica, Johnson Kerri L
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2022 Nov;48(11):1531-1547. doi: 10.1177/01461672211044067. Epub 2021 Sep 16.
Black male students on college campuses report being frequently misperceived as student-athletes. Across three studies, we tested the role of perceivers' racial and gendered biases in categorization of Black and White students and student-athletes and the subsequent evaluative consequences. Participants viewed faces of actual Black and White male and female undergraduates who were either non-athlete or student- and made binary judgments about whether the undergraduate was a or an . We found an overall bias to judge Black male undergraduates to be student-athletes, driven by Black male students being more likely to be misperceived as student-athletes than White male students. Furthermore, male targets perceived to be student-athletes were rated lower on academic ability (Studies 2 and 3). In contrast, we found an overall bias to judge female undergraduates as students. Implications for how perceiver bias plays a dual role in negatively affecting academic climates for underrepresented groups are discussed.
大学校园里的黑人男学生表示，他们经常被错误地认为是学生运动员。在三项研究中，我们测试了感知者的种族和性别偏见在对黑人和白人学生以及学生运动员进行分类时所起的作用，以及随之产生的评价后果。参与者观看了实际的黑人与白人男女本科生的面孔，这些学生要么是非运动员，要么是学生运动员，然后对该本科生是学生还是学生运动员做出二元判断。我们发现，总体上存在一种将黑人男本科生判断为学生运动员的偏见，这是因为黑人男学生比白人男学生更有可能被错误地认为是学生运动员。此外，被认为是学生运动员的男性目标在学术能力方面的评分较低（研究2和3）。相比之下，我们发现总体上存在一种将女本科生判断为学生的偏见。本文讨论了感知者偏见如何在对代表性不足群体的学术氛围产生负面影响方面发挥双重作用。
