The Psyche on Automatic

The punnett square of social orientation towards peers is interesting, but a little stark.

  1. warm & competant   : admire
  2. warm & incompetant : pity
  3. cold & competant   : envy
  4. cold & incompetant : contempt

I definitely know people who fit profile one, that I do not admire, and some who fit profile two, that I don't pity. I also don't harbor strictly negative opinions or emotions regarding cold personalities, although I suppose incompetance is rarely a welcome character trait.

Come to think of it, it would seem that most of the working world is aligned toward producing profile three, wouldn't it? That doesn't really bring forth any sort of jealousy, so much as it is just depressing.

I guess there's probably always room for neutral respect and civility... which is somewhat cold... but uh... geeze, sometimes social sciences can be brutal, huh?