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Warmth and competence: Stereotype content issues for clinicians and researchers.

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Stereotypes are often accidents of history, based on passing configurations of groups' societal interdependence and status. This article overviews our framework for understanding all this: the Stereotype Content Model, focused on two fundamental dimension of intergroup and interpersonal cognition, perceived warmth (from interdependence) and perceived competence (from relative status); then it discusses immigrant images as a case study; next, the article focuses on the toxic and potentially curative effects of each dimension.

Source: Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne

DOI: 10.1037/a0026054

Author: Susan T. Fiske

Institution: Princeton University

Language: English

Topic: Social and Intergroup Psychology

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Award: Infrastructure for Population Research