Enviable outgroups historically split from pitied ones along warmth and competence.

Evidence

In the intergroup domain, early on, one ethnic out-group (i.e., Jews) was viewed as competent but not warm, and another (i.e., “Negroes”) was viewed as warm but not competent (Allport, 1954; Bettelheim & Janowitz, 1950). Curiously, this older ethnic-group distinction echoes modern-day views about perceived subgroups of women (Deaux, Winton, Crowley, & Lewis, 1985; Eckes, 1994; Noseworthy & Lott, 1984; Six & Eckes, 1991): disliked, dominant, competent, nontraditional women (e.g., career women, feminists, lesbians, athletes) versus likable, dependent, incompetent, traditional women (e.g., housewives, sometimes “chicks”). Overall, the ethnic and gender distinctions both fit our hypothesized dimensions of competence and warmth. — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 19

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly feeds the reading purpose — the high-competence/low-warmth ‘enviable’ outgroup category maps onto the Jews/career-women examples the reader is after. — connects to: Groups seen as competing with the ingroup are stereotyped as low in warmth — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1491; Envied out-groups draw low-warmth stereotypes that rationalize their exclusion — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 32; Mixed stereotypes combine high competence with low warmth or vice versa — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 3 (+10 more)

Broader Connections