This is a major conclusion of my dissertation. When attention is misallocated in a way that people are asked to make judgments on something they don't have the background knowledge to evaluate, they'll evaluate it using easily-accessible stereotyping.
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It's generally an adaptive heuristic. The world is "too big [...] for direct acquaintance." But, when the distrust dominates, you get, "Hrm, I can't trust Johnny. He just want's these delicious berries for himself."
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