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Research Summary: Personality and affective forecasting: Trait introverts underpredict the hedonic benefits of acting extraverted

What This Study Found Introverts overestimate how bad extroverted behavior will feel. When researchers asked introverts to predict how they'd feel acting extroverted (like speaking up in meetings

Jun 19, 2025 1 min read

Research Summary: People with disagreeable personalities (selfish, combative, and manipulative) do not have an advantage in pursuing power at work

What This Study Found Being a jerk doesn't actually get you promoted. Researchers tracked professionals for 14 years and found that disagreeable people—those who are selfish, combative,

Jun 19, 2025 2 min read

Research Summary: Stereotype content: Warmth and competence endure

What This Study Found: People judge you on two critical dimensions: warmth and competence. Research across cultures shows that when colleagues meet you, they're asking two questions (whether

Jun 18, 2025 1 min read

Research Summary: Universal dimensions of social cognition: warmth and competence

What This Study Found This paper summarizes what Fiske and Cuddy found previously: when meeting someone new, we have to form an immediate judgment on two questions: 1) is the

Jun 18, 2025 1 min read

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Research Summary: Personality and affective forecasting: Trait introverts underpredict the hedonic benefits of acting extraverted

Research Summary: People with disagreeable personalities (selfish, combative, and manipulative) do not have an advantage in pursuing power at work

Research Summary: Stereotype content: Warmth and competence endure

Research Summary: Universal dimensions of social cognition: warmth and competence