description Susan Fiske Overview
Susan Fiske is an American social psychologist whose research examines social cognition, stereotyping, prejudice, and interpersonal perception. With Amy Cuddy and Peter Glick, she developed the Stereotype Content Model, which organizes common group stereotypes along the dimensions of warmth and competence. The model proposes that different combinations of these judgments are associated with distinct emotions and forms of discrimination, including admiration, pity, envy, and contempt.
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What are the two dimensions in Susan Fiske's Stereotype Content Model?
The model organizes stereotypes around perceived warmth and competence. Fiske developed it with Amy Cuddy and Peter Glick to explain why different groups can attract admiration, pity, envy, or contempt.
What does warmth mean in Fiske's research?
Warmth concerns perceived intentions, including whether a person or group seems friendly, trustworthy, or threatening. Competence concerns perceived ability to carry out those intentions.
How does the Stereotype Content Model explain mixed stereotypes?
A group can be judged high on one dimension and low on the other rather than simply liked or disliked. For example, an envied group may be perceived as competent but cold, while a pitied group may be perceived as warm but incompetent.
What is Susan Fiske's connection to the Princeton social-cognition tradition?
Fiske has been a professor at Princeton University and has studied stereotyping, prejudice, and person perception. Her work links basic social-cognition experiments with questions about status, competition, and inequality.
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