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Intergroup biases: a focus on stereotype content

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Fiske, Susan T·2015·Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
DOI 10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.01.010PMC PMC4955357
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Impressions of others, including societal groups, systematically array along two dimensions, warmth (trustworthiness/friendliness) and competence. Social structures of competition and status respectively predict these usually orthogonal dimensions. Prejudiced emotions (pride, pity, contempt, and envy) target each quadrant, and distinct discriminatory behavioral tendencies result. The Stereotype Content Model (SCM) patterns generalize across time (2oth century), culture (every populated continent), level of analysis (targets from individuals to subtypes to groups to nations), and measures (from neural to self-report to societal indicators). Future directions include individual differences in endorsement of these cultural stereotypes and how perceivers view combinations across the SCM space.

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Authors
Fiske, S. T.
Affiliations
Princeton University (US)
Corresponding author
Fiske, Susan T
ORCID
Fiske, Susan T
Venue
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-06
Volume
3
Pages
45-50
ISSN
2352-1546 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.01.010
PMC
PMC4955357
OpenAlex
W2013607934
Cited by
215
References
67
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FWCI
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Language
en
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www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Justice
  • Princeton University
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD047879)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Keywords
intergroup bias, stereotype content, stereotype content model, warmth and competence, prejudice, discriminatory behavior, competition, cultural stereotypes, individual differences, cross-cultural generalization

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