Stereotype Content Model

A Stereotype Content Model is a Psychological Theory based on stereotypes.

• See: Competence, Trustworthiness, Social Group, Ingroups, Outgroup, Social Status, Cengage Learning.

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References

2016

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/stereotype_content_model Retrieved:2016-1-22.
  • The stereotype content model (SCM) is a psychological theory that hypothesizes that stereotypes possess two dimensions: warmth and competence. Social groups are perceived as warm if they do not compete with the ingroup for the same resources (e.g., college space) and they are considered competent if they are high in status (e.g., economically or educationally successful). Thus, lack of competition predicts perceived warmth and status predicts perceived competence. The model was first proposed by social psychologist Susan Fiske and her colleagues Amy Cuddy, Peter Glick and Jun Xu.

2002

• (Fiske et al., 2002) ⇒ Susan T. Fiske, Amy J.C. Cuddy, Peter Glick, and Jun Xu. (2002). “A Model of (often Mixed) Stereotype Content: Competence and Warmth Respectively Follow from Perceived Status and Competition..” In: Journal of personality and social psychology, 82(6). doi:10.1037/0022-3514.82.6.878
  • QUOTE: Stereotype research emphasizes systematic processes over seemingly arbitrary contents, but content also may prove systematic. On the basis of stereotypes' intergroup functions, the stereotype content model hypothesizes that (1) 2 primary dimensions are competence and warmth, (2) frequent mixed clusters combine high warmth with low competence (paternalistic) or high competence with low warmth (envious), and (3) distinct emotions (pity, envy, admiration, contempt) differentiate the 4 competence-warmth combinations. ...

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