Despite a large body of knowledge about factors influencing perceptions of discrimination in single instances, little is known about the perception of discrimination based on multiple instances of discrimination. One reason for this lack of knowledge is that existing methods in discrimination perception research are not optimal for this subject. The present manuscript introduces the Summarized and Sequential Discrimination (SUSED) Paradigm, which was designed to facilitate investigating processes of discrimination perception based on multiple discriminatory instances. The SUSED-paradigm provides participants with statistical information about multiple instances of discrimination and fosters investigating information processing underlying judgments of discrimination. In the SUSED-paradigm, information on discrimination is presented either in a summarized or in a sequential format in which an approximation of the actual statistical strength of discrimination can be derived from the given information. Experiments 1–6 (N = 1130) demonstrate the utility of the SUSED-paradigm for experimentally manipulating statistical discrimination at multiple levels of strength in a manner that can be perceived by participants. The results demonstrate high correlations between subjective and statistical discrimination strengths, even when real marginalized groups were presented. Furthermore, we compared how three different measures of discrimination perception differ in their sensitivity to variations in differential group treatments and the strength of the statistical discrimination. Experiments 7 and 8 (N = 347) replicated the well-documented prototype effect in both formats of the SUSED-paradigm to gauge the paradigms convergent validity with former methods.

尽管对影响单一事件中歧视看法的因素有大量了解，但对基于多重歧视事件的歧视看法知之甚少。缺乏知识的原因之一是歧视感知研究中的现有方法对于该主题来说并不是最佳的。本手稿介绍了概括和顺序歧视（SUSED）范式，该范式旨在促进基于多种歧视实例的歧视感知过程的调查。SUSED 范式为参与者提供有关多种歧视实例的统计信息，并促进调查歧视判断背后的信息处理。在 SUSED 范式中，有关歧视的信息以概括或连续的格式呈现，其中可以从给定的信息中得出歧视的实际统计强度的近似值。实验 1-6 ( N  = 1130) 证明了 SUSED 范式的实用性，即以参与者可以感知的方式实验性地操纵多个强度级别的统计歧视。结果表明，即使存在真正的边缘化群体，主观歧视强度和统计歧视强度之间也存在高度相关性。此外，我们还比较了三种不同的歧视感知衡量标准对差异群体处理变化的敏感性以及统计歧视强度的差异。实验 7 和 8 ( N  = 347) 在 SUSED 范式的两种格式中复制了有据可查的原型效应，以衡量范式与以前方法的收敛有效性。