Sharing your doubts: The influence on warmth, competence and morality

Imke van Ginneken | Joep van den Nieuwenhuizen | Marlea van Loenhout | Mila Mihić |
Nicky van Doremalen | Niklas Tabet | Sanne Frederiks D_3_2
Group 10

Introduction
Characteristics: warmth, competence & morality
Research by Fiske et al. (2002) and Goodwin (2015) has shown that
the dimensions of morality, warmth and competence underlie impression
formation. Compared to warmth and competence, morality is the
strongest predictor of perceptions.
Central question: “Does sharing your doubts influence the way in
which you are perceived warm, competent & moral?”
Hypothesis: “People who share their doubts will be perceived more warm, competent & moral”

Method
• Participants & materials
• Research design N = 341 after excluding N=224
3 scenario’s x 2 conditions ♂ = 44% ♀ = 55% ⚧ = 1%
Condition 1: Sharing doubts • Statistical analysis
Condition 2: Not sharing doubts Independent-Samples T-test

Results
Scenario 1: Finance Scenario 2: Career Scenario 3: Family
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Morality Competence Warmth Morality Competence Warmth Morality Competence Warmth
M: t(211) = - 4.421 C: t(211) = 0.283 W: t(211) = - 3.086 M: t(218) = - 4.850 C: t(218) = 0.926 W: t(219) = - 1.793 M: t(219) = - 4.710 C: t(219) = - 0.709 W: t(218) = - 2.683

Sharing Not sharing Sharing Not sharing Sharing Not sharing

Discussion Conclusion
• Strengths: three different types of • The findings support the hypothesis
scenarios regarding morality & warmth
• Limitations: (1) Sample size, • The findings do not support the
(2) Participants age, (3) Measurement hypothesis regarding competence

*** p-value < 0.001

** p-value < 0.01
* p-value < 0.05 ‘Sharing is caring’
N.S. = Not significant

Reference
Fiske, S. T., Cuddy, A. J. C., Glick, P., & Xu, J. (2002). A model of (often mixed) stereotype content: Competence and warmth respectively follow from perceived
status and competition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 878-902. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.82.6.878

Goodwin, G. P. (2015). Moral character in person perception. Current Direction in Psychological Science, 24, 38-44. doi: 10.1177/0963721414550709