Playing Dumb and Giving the Cold Shoulder: How Stereotypes Pervade the Workplace (IMAGE)

Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Playing Dumb and Giving the Cold Shoulder: How Stereotypes Pervade the Workplace

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Managers play down their competence to appear warmer to their subordinates while the subordinates hide their own warmth in an effort to appear more competent.

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Gwyneth Olson, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

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