stereotypes - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Answer the following about the social psychologist Susan Fiske, for 10 points each.

[10e] With Peter Glick and Amy Cuddy, Fiske modeled these biases along the dimensions of warmth and competence. These biases are generalized beliefs about particular groups of people.

ANSWER: stereotypes [accept stereotype content model]

[10h] Along with Glick, Fiske developed a 22-item inventory for this two-word framework, which claims that its central attitude is composed of benevolent and hostile subtypes, depending on their evaluations of gender.

ANSWER: ambivalent sexism theory [accept Ambivalent Sexism Inventory; prompt on sexism]

[10m] Fiske coined the “cognitive miser” to describe how people minimize cognitive effort when problem-solving, based on these two thinkers’ paper “Judgment Under Uncertainty.” These two thinkers developed prospect theory.

ANSWER: Daniel Kahneman AND Amos Tversky

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Summary


California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	13.00	90%	30%	10%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	88%	63%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	7.50	58%	17%	0%

Data


Arizona State	UC Santa Barbara	10	0	10	20
UC Irvine	UCSD C	10	0	0	10
UCSD B	UCLA A	10	0	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD A	10	0	10	20
Carleton University	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	0	0
Brock	Toronto D	10	0	10	20
Toronto E	Simon Fraser	10	0	10	20
Waterloo B	Toronto F	10	10	10	30
McGill B	UBC A	10	0	0	10
UBC B	Ottawa	10	0	0	10
Waterloo A	McGill A	10	0	0	10
Toronto G	Western B	10	0	0	10
McMaster A	Guelph	10	0	0	10
NC State B	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
North Carolina A	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
Liberty A	North Carolina C	10	0	0	10
VCU	South Carolina A	10	0	0	10
South Carolina B	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Virginia	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech B	William and Mary	0	0	0	0
Toronto B	Queen's	10	0	0	10
Chicago B	Chicago D	10	0	10	20
Chicago E	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
Illinois A	Illinois C	10	0	10	20
Northwestern B	Indiana A	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	Northwestern C	0	0	0	0
Notre Dame B	Northwestern D	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	Illinois B	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Chicago C	10	0	10	20
Bowdoin A	Harvard A	0	0	0	0
MIT	Brandeis B	10	0	10	20
Brown	Yale	10	0	0	10
Carleton College	Iowa State	10	0	0	10
Missouri A	Georgia Tech A	10	0	10	20
Washington A	Claremont	10	0	0	10
LSE	Birmingham	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Cambridge A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Manchester	0	0	0	0
Oxford C	Cambridge C	10	0	0	10
Durham	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
Bristol	Edinburgh A	10	0	0	10
Southampton A	Edinburgh B	10	0	10	20
Imperial C	Cardiff	0	0	0	0
Montpellier	UCL	10	0	0	10
Oxford B	Southampton B	0	0	0	0
Oxford A	Warwick A	10	0	0	10
Warwick B	City St. George's	0	0	0	0
Southern Connecticut State	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Harvard B	Brandeis A	0	0	0	0