Harvard Magazine highlights Professor Amy Cuddy’s work on our immediate perceptions of warmth and competence in others, and how those perceptions shape our responses to others.  Together, she says, warmth and competence account for 80% of our overall initial evaluation of someone we meet.

She also explores the tendencies of alpha-type personalities in positions of power to stereotype more.  If power is a disinhibiting drug, she argues, then stereotypes grow more automatic.

Our brains are so cool.  

Hat tip to the Truman Partnership