People gather information about others along a few fundamental dimensions; their current goals determine which dimensions they most need to know. As proponents of competing social-evaluation models, we sought to study the dimensions that perceivers spontaneously prioritize when gathering information about unknown social groups. Because priorities depend on functions, having relational goals (e.g., deciding whether and how to interact with a group) versus structural goals (e.g., getting an overview of society) should moderate dimensional priorities. Various candidate dimensions could differentiate perceivers' impressions of social groups. For example, the Stereotype Content model argues that people evaluate others in terms of their Warmth (i.e., their Sociability and Morality) and Competence (i.e., their Ability and Assertiveness). Alternatively, the Agency-Beliefs-Communion (ABC) model proposes conservative-progressive Beliefs. Five studies (N = 2,268) found that participants consistently prioritized learning about targets' Warmth. However, goal moderated priority: When participants had a relational goal, such as an unknown group increasing in their neighborhood, they showed more interest in targets' Sociability, a facet of Warmth. When participants had a structural goal, such as an unknown group increasing in their nation, they showed more interest in the groups' Beliefs, as well as increased interest in Competence-related facets. Diverse methods reveal interest in all dimensions, reconciling discrepancies among social-evaluation models by identifying how relational versus structural goals differentiate priorities of the fundamental dimensions proposed by current models. Results have implications for fundamental dimensions of social cognition, more generally. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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关系目标与结构目标优先考虑不同的社会信息。

人们从几个基本维度收集关于他人的信息；他们当前的目标决定了他们最需要了解的维度。作为竞争性社会评价模型的支持者，我们试图研究感知者在收集有关未知社会群体的信息时自发优先考虑的维度。因为优先级取决于功能，所以具有关系性目标（例如，决定是否以及如何与团队互动）与结构性目标（例如，了解社会概况）应该缓和维度优先级。各种候选维度可以区分感知者对社会群体的印象。例如，刻板印象内容模型认为，人们根据他们的热情（即他们的社交能力和道德）和能力（即他们的能力和自信）来评价他人。或者，机构-信念-交流 (ABC) 模型提出了保守-进步信念。五项研究（N = 2,268）发现参与者始终优先考虑学习目标的温暖。然而，目标缓和了优先级：当参与者有一个相关的目标时，例如在他们附近增加一个未知群体，他们对目标的社交能力表现出更多的兴趣，这是温暖的一个方面。当参与者有一个结构性目标时，例如一个未知群体在他们的国家中增加，他们对群体的信念表现出更多的兴趣，以及对与能力相关的方面的兴趣增加。多样化的方法揭示了对所有维度的兴趣，通过确定关系目标与结构目标如何区分当前模型提出的基本维度的优先级来协调社会评价模型之间的差异。更广泛地说，结果对社会认知的基本维度有影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。