Richard Nixon's Anti-Semitism and Theories of Stereotypes

The Jews are meet a rattling battleful and material and offensive personality...But they are healthy people.

The latest revelation from the President tapes scarce tells us something we didn't already know most Richard Nixon. But I was struck by how well Nixon's analyse of Jews fits with psychological research on stereotypes.

In particular, the work of Susan Fiske and colleagues suggests that there are digit base dimensions to classify noesis (see this earlier post). The prototypal is warmth, which captures the intentions of a group. How friendly, hostile, etc. are they? The ordinal is competence, which captures the abilities of a group. How smart, hardworking, lazy, etc. are they?

In this article (pdf), Fiske, Amy Cuddy, Peter Glick, and Jun Xu asked respondents a shelling of items most various groups, and then plotted the average evaluations of apiece group on these digit dimensions. Here is the interpret from my early post, which is similar to ones in the article:

Jews are on the righthand side. They are stereotyped as "competent" but not as specially "warm." So Nixon's analyse lines up with this uncovering nicely. Perhaps the exclusive difference is that his statement of Jews as "very battleful and material and obnoxious" sounds same he sees them as modify less warm than the Fiske et al. sample.