Authors:

  • Amy Cuddy

Excerpt

Nations' Income Inequality Predicts Ambivalence in Stereotype Content: How Societies Mind the Gap. Amy Cuddy, December 1, 2013, Paper. “Income inequality undermines societies: the more inequality, the more health problems, social tensions, and the lower social mobility, trust, life expectancy. Given people’s tendency to legitimate existing social arrangements, the Stereotype Content Model (SCM) argues that ambivalence―perceiving many groups as either warm or competent, but not both―may help maintain socio-economic disparities. The association between stereotype ambivalence and income inequality in 37…” Link