Gender categorization is central to everyday life. Discussions about gender have traditionally focused on gender identities, or gender categories to which a person might have an internal sense of belonging (e.g., men and women, boys and girls). More recently, discussions about gender also include gender modality (transgender or cisgender), or how a person's gender identity relates to their sex assigned at birth. In this registered report, we investigate gender-relevant categorization including gender identity and gender modality using measures assessing the automatic encoding of categories and explicit beliefs about the similarity between categories. We also compare performance on these tasks in transgender and cisgender youth and adults to help shed light on long-standing debates about the role of experience in categorization. Across two studies (N = 1144), we found that participants automatically encoded both gender identity and gender modality, and that variations in categorization between participant groups were largely mediated by participants' attitudes (i.e., openness to nonbinary identities) and experiences (i.e., contact with trans people). These results thus help refine our psychological theories of gender categorization to more accurately reflect the landscape of gender categories permeating modern society.

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跨性别者和顺性别者的性别分类和记忆


性别分类是日常生活的核心。传统上，关于性别的讨论集中在性别认同上，或者一个人可能具有内在归属感的性别类别（例如，男人和女人、男孩和女孩）。最近，关于性别的讨论还包括性别模式（跨性别或顺性别），或者一个人的性别认同与其出生时被分配的性别有何关系。在这份注册报告中，我们使用评估类别自动编码和对类别之间相似性的明确信念的措施来调查性别相关分类，包括性别认同和性别模式。我们还比较了跨性别和顺性别青年和成人在这些任务上的表现，以帮助阐明关于经验在分类中的作用的长期争论。在两项研究 （N = 1144） 中，我们发现参与者自动编码了性别认同和性别模式，并且参与者群体之间分类的变化主要由参与者的态度（即对非二元身份的开放性）和经历（即与跨性别者的接触）所中介。因此，这些结果有助于完善我们的性别分类心理学理论，以更准确地反映渗透到现代社会的性别类别景观。