Ovulation-linked race bias amplifies most in women who feel vulnerable to sexual coercion.

Evidence

In addition, the authors performed a regression analysis predicting race bias as a function of conception risk and an individual difference measure of perceived vulnerability to sexual coercion (e.g., “I avoid going out alone at night” and “I am wary of men”; Senn & Dzinas, 1996). The results revealed a two-way interaction such that the relationship between race bias and conception risk was greatest when perceived vulnerability to sexual coercion was high. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1263

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors motivated social cognition research where situational affordances gate the activation of threat-based biases.