Individuals demonstrate implicit evaluative biases with respect to multiple dimensions of socialcategorization. However,
little is known
about how such implicit biases manifest toward targets
displaying simultaneously intersecting social categories. Across four studies (N = 4,314) we used
Single-Target IATs (Studies 1-4) and Evaluative Priming Tasks (Study 4) to test competing
hypotheses concerning implicit evaluations of multiply categorizable targets varying in race,
gender, social class, and age. Overall, we observed a dominant pro-female/anti-male bias, which
accounted for more target-level variation in implicit evaluations than race-, class-, or age-related
biases. We also documented smaller and less consistent pro-upper-class/anti-lower-class biases,
and pro-Asian/pro-White/anti-Black racial biases. We observed little evidence of consistent
interactions between social categories, or of effects differing between student samples (Studies
1-3) and a representative US sample (Study 4), or as a function of presenting targets as full-body
or upper-body photographs (Studies 3 & 4). Taken together, these results suggest that implicit
evaluations of multiply categorizable targets may operate according to a category dominance
hierarchy, with a single category (here, gender) predominantly driving evaluations, but ancillary
categories producing compounding levels of bias toward individuals displaying multiple
stigmatized or positively-valued social identities.