In this study, the hypothesis that competent individuals would be evaluated less negatively than incompetent individuals when they behaved deviantly was tested. 192 college students rated brief descriptions of individuals who were either competent or incompetent and either normal or deviant. In general, deviance was more strongly related to subjects' ratings than was competence. Interactions of competence and deviance occurred rarely.
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