Susan T. Fiske

Controlling other people: The impact of power on stereotyping.

Attention and weight in person perception: The impact of negative and extreme behavior.

Social perceivers process selected aspects of the stimulus array presented by another person. This article argues that such selectivity is based on the informativeness of person...

(Dis)respecting versus (Dis)liking: Status and Interdependence Predict Ambivalent Stereotypes of Competence and Warmth

As Allport (1954) implied, the content of stereotypes may be systematic, and specifically, ambivalent. We hypothesize two clusters of outgroups, one perceived as incompetent but...

Thinking is for doing: Portraits of social cognition from Daguerreotype to laserphoto.

Negative Interdependence and Prejudice: Whence the Affect?

Motivational influences on impression formation: Outcome dependency, accuracy-driven attention, and individuating processes.

The generalizability of salience effects.

A model of (often mixed) stereotype content: Competence and warmth respectively follow from perceived status and competition.

Stereotype research emphasizes systematic processes over seemingly arbitrary contents, but content also may prove systematic. On the basis of stereotypes' intergroup functions, ...