Department of Psychology, Princeton University.
J Exp Psychol Appl. 2023 Jun;29(2):425-439. doi: 10.1037/xap0000442. Epub 2022 Aug 15.
Many of the everyday restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., lockdowns, being apart from loved ones) are even worse for those with fewer financial and material resources, but a series of experiments (total = 1,452) suggests that people think the opposite. Indeed, participants consistently displayed a "thick skin bias," whereby they perceived effects of the pandemic such as sheltering at home or remaining apart from loved ones as less harmful for people in poverty. Directly providing information that contradicted this misguided stereotype reduced, but did not completely reverse, the thick skin bias. A failure to understand the full impact of the pandemic for those with the fewest resources may perpetuate and exacerbate inequalities during and after this unprecedented global crisis, making the identification of strategies to counteract biased understandings of poverty a pressing priority for future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
许多由 COVID-19 大流行引起的日常限制（例如封锁、与亲人分离）对那些经济和物质资源较少的人来说更为严重，但一系列实验（共 1452 人）表明情况恰恰相反。事实上，参与者始终表现出一种“厚脸皮偏见”，即他们认为大流行的影响，如在家避难或与亲人分开，对贫困人群的危害较小。直接提供与这种误导性刻板印象相矛盾的信息，减少了但并没有完全消除厚脸皮偏见。如果不了解资源最少的人所受到的大流行的全面影响，可能会在这场前所未有的全球危机期间和之后使不平等现象持续存在并加剧，因此，确定应对贫困偏见的策略是未来研究的当务之急。
