Americans across regions and ages agree which outgroups read as competent versus warm.

Evidence

In all six groups, in each of five samples, rich people, feminists, and Black professionals showed significantly more competence than warmth, whereas housewives, elderly (in Illinois, retarded) people, and welfare recipients showed significantly more warmth than competence. With a shorter questionnaire, across 6 decades in average ages and five U.S. locations, respondents agreed on cultural stereotypes that some kinds of out-groups specialize in competence over warmth, whereas others specialize in warmth over competence, and only welfare recipients fit the pure derogation model. — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 238

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: One’s own social position predicts which prejudice type one will exhibit. — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 306; Abstract-level middle-cluster stereotypes mask sharp subtype splits within a group. — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 292; People judge compared groups as opposites on warmth and competence. — Susan T. Fiske, Stereotype Content: Warmth and…, 46 (+1 more)

Related

• Outgroup prejudice reduces to two basic judgments, warmth and competence (similarity 0.90)
• Out-group stereotypes split into stable competence-warmth clusters with half the groups showing mixed profiles (similarity 0.87)
• High-competence groups are judged significantly lower in warmth, yielding mixed stereotypes. (similarity 0.87)
• Groups are judged on perceived warmth and competence, which drive distinct emotions toward them (similarity 0.85)
• Cultural out-group stereotypes yield a two-by-two grid with only welfare recipients purely derogated. (similarity 0.85)
• Warmth and competence judgments predict distinct emotional reactions to groups (similarity 0.85)
• People judge compared groups as opposites on warmth and competence. (similarity 0.85)
• Enviable outgroups historically split from pitied ones along warmth and competence. (similarity 0.84)
• Mixed stereotypes feel unproblematic because the two dimensions are separable (similarity 0.84)
• Competent-but-cold groups form a stable stereotype cluster across samples. (similarity 0.83)
• Mixed stereotypes combine high competence with low warmth or vice versa (similarity 0.83)
• Specific stereotype combinations elicit distinct prejudiced emotions toward out-groups. (similarity 0.82)
• Paternalized low-competence groups cluster high on warmth. (similarity 0.82)
• High competence plus high warmth cluster describes in-groups not outgroups. (similarity 0.82)
• Prejudice splits into perceived warmth and competence dimensions (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Outgroup prejudice reduces to two basic judgments, warmth and competence #expands (0.85) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 322
• People judge compared groups as opposites on warmth and competence. #qualifies (0.80) — Susan T. Fiske, Stereotype Content, 46