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SUBMITTER: Wolf LJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5423532 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Personality & social psychology bulletin 20170422 6
Three studies examined the role of need for affect (NFA) and need for cognition (NFC) in intergroup perception. We hypothesized that NFA predicts a preference for stereotypically warm groups over stereotypically cold groups, whereas NFC predicts a preference for stereotypically competent groups over stereotypically incompetent groups. Study 1 supported these hypotheses for attitudes toward stereotypically ambivalent groups, which are stereotyped as high on one of the trait dimensions (e.g., high ...[more]