We tend to prefer pleasant but inept people over cold but skilled ones. Why is that? The answer may lie in our ancestral past.
of both groups and individuals. Generally, different combinations of warmth and competence give rise to different emotional reactions. For example, people and groups judged to be both warm and competent may invoke feelings of admiration. Those judged as competent yet cold are likely to provoke feelings of; those who are high on warmth but low on competence tend to elicit sympathy , and those who are low on both counts may encounter contempt.
This explanation, however, leaks in several ways. For one, it assumes that other people’s intentions are inherently more impactful than their competence. But this need not necessarily be so. “In principle, the impact of people’s behavior is the product of their intentions and their ability to carry out their intentions, much as a serving of pie is a product of both the size of the entire pie and the relative share of the slice being served.
Once in a relationship, however, a partner’s competence is more likely to vary dramatically than their warmth. For one, “ancestral productive skill was likely domain-specific , which produces variance between domains of.” Moreover, “many important forms of ancestral production were affected by luck as well as ability, which produces variance over time even within the same domain.”
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