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Author(s) Vonk R Title The slime effect: Suspicion and dislike of likeable behavior toward superiors Source JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 74 (4): 849-864 Date 1998 APR Type Journal : Article LCR: 7   NCR: 39   LCS: 4   GCS: 20 Comment   Address Leiden Univ, Dept Social Psychol, NL-2333 AK Leiden, Netherlands. Reprint Vonk, R, Leiden Univ, Dept Social Psychol, Wassenaarseweg 52, NL-2333 AK Leiden, Netherlands. Abstract An actor who is likeable toward superiors and dislikeable toward subordinates is judged as extremely dislikeable and slimy (Experiments 1 and 2). Subsequent experiments addressed several theoretical accounts of this slime effect. Likeable behaviors toward superiors induce suspicion of ulterior motivation, which is confirmed when dislikeable behaviors toward subordinates are observed (Experiment 3). The operation of a slime schema was indicated by the emergence of an illusory correlation between an actor's behavior and the status of the target, such that the actor was erroneously perceived as more likeable toward superiors (Experiment 4). Further, perceivers spontaneously discerned the behavioral pattern of "licking upward-kicking downward," regardless of processing time (Experiment 5). Implications for impression formation and inconsistency resolution, trait inferences and correspondence bias, and lay theories of self-presentational behavior are discussed. CR ADORNO T, 1950, AUTHORITARIAN PERSON ASCH SE, 1946, J ABNORMAL SOCIAL PS, V41, P258 ASCH SE, 1984, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V46, P1230 FEIN S, 1990, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V58, P753 FEIN S, 1996, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V70, P1164 FISKE ST, 1993, AM PSYCHOL, V48, P621 GILBERT DT, 1988, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V54, P733 GILBERT DT, 1995, PSYCHOL BULL, V117, P21 GODFREY DK, 1986, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V50, P106 GORDON RA, 1996, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V71, P54 HAMILTON DL, 1976, J EXPT SOCIAL PSYCHO, V12, P392 HASTIE R, 1980, PERSON MEMORY COGNIT, P155 HASTIE R, 1986, PSYCHOL REV, V93, P258 HILTON JL, 1993, PERS SOC PSYCHOL B, V19, P501 JONES EE, 1964, INGRATIATION JONES EE, 1965, ADVANCES EXPERIMENTA, V2, P220 JONES EE, 1990, INTERPERSONAL PERCEP KELLEY HH, 1973, AM PSYCHOL, V28, P107 KIPNIS D, 1971, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V17, P280 LEARY MR, 1995, SELFPRESENTATION IMP MCARTHUR LZ, 1980, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V39, P615 MCCONNELL AR, 1994, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V67, P173 MCCONNELL AR, 1997, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V73, P675 MULLEN B, 1990, BRIT J SOC PSYCHOL, V29, P11 REEDER GD, 1979, PSYCHOL REV, V86, P61 REEDER GD, 1980, J EXPT SOCIAL PSYCHO, V16, P33 REEDER GD, 1983, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V44, P736 SCHLENKER BR, 1980, IMPRESSION MANAGEMEN SMITH ER, 1983, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V44, P492 SRULL T, 1981, J EXPT PSYCHOL HUMAN, V7, P440 TRAFIMOV D, 1994, UNPUB PEOPLE REALLY VONK R, 1993, PERS SOC PSYCHOL B, V19, P269 VONK R, 1994, EUROPEAN REV SOCIAL, V5, P111 VONK R, 1994, SOC COGNITION, V12, P169 VONK R, 1995, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V68, P215 VONK R, 1997, UNPUB IMPRESSION MAN VONK R, 1998, UNPUB SELF SERVING I VONK R, IN PRESS EUROPEAN J WYER RS, 1982, J EXPT SOCIAL PSYCHO, V18, P128