I haven’t named most of “The Traitors” third-season challengers because there are more than 20 of them, but the game’s psychology relies on typecasting on the part of players and viewers.

Research shows through a process called “moral typecasting,” that it’s common for people to see so-called “villains” as people who cannot feel pain.

The presidential election showcased the Republican strategy of typecasting California and the Democratic Party as left of most of the country.

That kind of typecasting never appealed to Hill.

Yet the controversy had the effect of typecasting Gurba as the impudent indie writer willing to torch the publishing industry to make a point about diversity.