Gender bias in moral typecasting Dr Tania Reynolds, Kinsey Institute & Dept of Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, US. Moral typecasting theory posits that when humans evaluate moral interactions, they instinctively typecast the involved individuals into two roles: harm-inflicting perpetrator or suffering victim. We predicted that the application of this cognitive schema is biased by gender, such that women are more easily typecast as victims and men as perpetrators. This was tested with 5 studies (N=1,538).