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A woman can be perceived as competent or as likable, but not both.
If you want to lead up, you need to be perceived as competent.
Like Asian Americans, African American professionals and Jews tend to be perceived as competent and cold.
ADAM GRANT: Yeah, I think obviously it's easier to do these things if you're already perceived as competent and you're respected.
But when the party's reputation for competence collapsed after Black Wednesday, its wider reputation suddenly mattered more: to be perceived as competent and uncaring is one thing, but to be incompetent and uncaring is quite another.
Previous research has shown that for women to be perceived as competent, they must be perceived as warm; men don't need to be seen as warm to be seen as competent.
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Some studies have found that instructors of the same gender, particularly instructors students perceive as competent, can improve the performance of female students (Haley et al., 2007; Hoffman and Oreopoulos, 2009; Carrell et al., 2010; Antecol et al., 2012), while other studies found no difference (Griffith, 2010; Price, 2010; Stout et al., 2011).
"Women who are perceived as highly competent are evaluated as less warm and less nice".
Men with children, on the other hand, are perceived as more competent and dedicated workers.
"You have to advertise your services and you have to be perceived as a competent smuggler.
Inappropriate-joke tellers were perceived as less competent and lower status than serious responders, even when the joke was funny.
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