Promote up, ingratiate down: Status comparisons drive warmth-competence tradeoffs in impression management

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2016, Pages 27-34

  Swencionis, Jillian K ^a   Fiske, Susan T ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Impression management; Social comparison; Status; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

COLD; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; STEREOTYPY;

EID: 84954552251     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.01.004     Document Type: Article

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