Power and affiliation are the two fundamental dimensions structuring all social behavior.

Evidence

Power and affiliation, for example, repeatedly emerge as the two fundamental dimensions of social behavior (see Brown, 1965, chapter 2) and interpersonal traits (Conte & Plutchik, 1981; Wiggins, 1980). Achievement reflects the dimen-sion of evaluation that is consistently the most important factor of connotative meaning (Snider & Osgood, 1969). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1294

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Fiske’s two-dimensional warmth/competence model and the circumplex tradition of Wiggins and P-E-T dimensions.