Comparing race, gender, age, and career categories in recognizing and grouping tasks

PeerJ

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Jingjing Song¹  Lin Li¹ 

[1] Institute of Applied Psychology, China University of Geosciences

关键词: Multiple categories;    Race;    Gender;    Category recognition task;    Category recognition;    Category preference;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.9156

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of our research was to compare how participants weighed age, gender, race, and career categories in recognizing and grouping tasks. In Study 1, we used a category recognition task to compare participants’ speeds in recognizing information from different categories. The results showed that participants recognized the gender information most quickly, followed by career, race, and age information. In Study 2, a categorization task was used to compare participants’ category preferences. The results showed that the career category had the greatest weight, and the gender category had the lowest weight. Two targets who had different career identities were more possible considered as belonging to different groups than two targets with different gender, race or age identities. Our results have implications in understanding the weight of different categories, with gender and career category are the most important category that affects perception and evaluation.

【 授权许可】

CC BY