When Being Nice or Being Smart Could Bring You Down: Compensatory Dynamics in Strategic Self-presentation

Research shows that the two fundamental dimensions of social perception, warmth and competence, are often negatively related in our perceptions of others, the so-called compensation effect. The current experiments investigate people’s use of such compensation when self-presenting strategically to re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Torun Lindholm, Vincent Yzerbyt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2018-05-01
Series:International Review of Social Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.rips-irsp.com/articles/136