Competent-but-cold groups form a stable stereotype cluster across samples.

Evidence

One cluster, high competence and low warmth, comprised six groups: Asians, educated people, Jews, men, professionals, and rich people. A matched pair t test on its cluster center shows this cluster to be perceived as significantly more competent (M 4.29) than warm (M 3.23), t(5) 7.80, p .01. The contents and center of the cluster closely resemble the comparable cluster in the first two samples, despite changes in scales and groups; feminists, businesswomen, northerners, and Black professionals are missing from Study 2, but otherwise the configuration is similar. This cluster scored the highest on competence (see Table 8). — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 189

Categorization

• XREF: This is the envied-outgroup quadrant of the Stereotype Content Model the reader is tracking; the six-group membership (Asians, Jews, rich, professionals, educated) is the empirical anchor for which groups count as respected-but-disliked. — connects to: Out-group stereotypes split into stable competence-warmth clusters with half the groups showing mixed profiles — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 155; Abstract-level middle-cluster stereotypes mask sharp subtype splits within a group. — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 292; Subgroups increase perceived variability and weaken stereotypes, while subtypes preserve them — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 305 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Abstract-level middle-cluster stereotypes mask sharp subtype splits within a group. #expands (0.78) — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 292
• Subgrouping a group reduces stereotyping while subtyping preserves it. #complicates (0.76) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1163
• Subgroups increase perceived variability and weaken stereotypes, while subtypes preserve them #complicates (0.74) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 305