ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2020
Social perceptions of warmth and competence influence behavioral intentions and neural processing.
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- Relations of social cognition with affective states: Insights from an expanded 2650-word database on warmth and competence.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- Impression management in distributive justice: balancing fairness and social perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Neural systems for processing social relationship information along two principal dimensions.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Recognizing humanity: dehumanization predicts neural mirroring and empathic accuracy in face-to-face interactions.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Article
- Stereotypes of Social Groups in Mainland China in Terms of Warmth and Competence: Evidence from a Large Undergraduate Sample.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Differences in Explicit Stereotype Activation among Social Groups Based on the Stereotype Content Model: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence in Chinese Sample.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Charismatic Nonverbal Displays by Leaders Signal Receptivity and Formidability, and Tap Approach and Avoidance Motivational Systems.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Perceptions of the primary social dimensions, warmth and competence, determine how we view and relate to social targets. To discern how warmth and competence might affect neural processing and its downstream behavioral consequences, we manipulated impressions of targets' warmth and competence and then measured intentions toward the target and motor resonance, a neural process previously linked to social processing. While EEG was recorded, 66 participants watched videos of people performing a simple motor activity and completed a measure of hypothetical intentions to help or harm. Both perceptions of warmth and competence predicted an increase in helping intentions. Moreover, participants showed the least motor resonance with high competence-medium warmth targets, suggesting the importance of both social dimensions in driving neural simulation of targets' actions. Perceptions of a person's warmth and competence can affect not only how others might intend to treat them, but also how they might process their basic experiences on a neural level.
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