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Warmth, competence, and closeness may provide more empirically grounded starts for a theory of sentiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2017

Daniel J. Hruschka*
Affiliation:
School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402. Daniel.Hruschka@asu.eduhttps://shesc.asu.edu/content/daniel-hruschka

Abstract

Gervais & Fessler dissect the folk concept of “contempt” to argue for a functionally integrated model of attitudes and emotions in the context of social relationships. Existing studies of how evaluations of warmth, competence, and closeness shape people's reactions and behaviors towards others may help in operationalizing and testing the proposed model.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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