Accuracy in Person Perception

Biesanz, Jeremy C.; Wallace, Jessica D.

doi:10.1017/9781108264822.006

Cited by 3 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 3,128 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Our analysis approach borrows from methods in the person perception literature (e.g. Biesanz & Wallace, 2020 ) to address this issue by modelling accuracy as latent intercepts and slopes within a multilevel model which carries forward the uncertainty around these accuracy components into estimations of their associations with other individual difference variables. We hope our study highlights how this modelling strategy could be fruitfully applied to more effectively model accuracy in many domains.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Status-impact assessment: is accuracy linked with status motivations?

2023

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Status hierarchies are ubiquitous across cultures and have been over deep time. Position in hierarchies shows important links with fitness outcomes. Consequently, humans should possess psychological adaptations for navigating the adaptive challenges posed by living in hierarchically organized groups. One hypothesized adaptation functions to assess, track, and store the status impacts of different acts, characteristics, and events in order to guide hierarchy navigation. Although this status-impact assessment system is expected to be universal, there are several ways in which differences in assessment accuracy could arise. This variation may link to broader individual difference constructs. In a preregistered study with samples from India (N = 815) and the USA (N = 822), we sought to examine how individual differences in the accuracy of status-impact assessments covaries with status motivations and personality. In both countries, greater overall status-impact assessment accuracy was associated with higher status motivations, as well as higher standing on two broad personality constructs: Honesty-Humility and Conscientiousness. These findings help map broad personality constructs onto variation in the functioning of specific cognitive mechanisms and contribute to an evolutionary understanding of individual differences.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Status-impact assessment: is accuracy linked with status motivations?

2023

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Personality perception or judgement has a long history in psychology (for reviews see Biesanz & Wallace, 2020;Funder, 1995;Hall et al, 2016). Most studies have focused on people's ability to infer strangers' personality traits in face-to-face settings at zeroacquaintance (Nestler & Back, 2013).…”

Section: Personality Perception: Perspectives and New Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open laptops, open minds: Consensus and accuracy in big five personality perception from laptop stickers

Campbell

Turner

Webster

2022

Journal of Research in Personality

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Manuscript under review; cite at own risk HighlightsExamined people's abilities to judge others' traits from their laptop stickers Compared traditional methods to cross-classified structural equation models (CC-SEMs) All Big Five traits except negative emotionality showed adequate consensus CC-SEM-based accuracy was significant only for extraversion and openmindedness Number of stickers served as a cue for the accuracy effect of aesthetic sensitivity Highlights (for review

show abstract

Section: Personality Perception: Perspectives and New Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open Laptops, Open Minds: Consensus and Accuracy in Big Five Personality Perception from Laptop Stickers

Campbell¹,

Webster²,

Turner³

2021

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Using traditional methods and cross-classified structural equation models (CC-SEMs), we assessed consensus and accuracy across 1,139 observations made by 8 perceivers of 147 laptops whose owners completed self-reports of the same Big Five traits and facets. Average Big Five consensus correlations were slightly stronger using traditional methods (.32) than using CC-SEMs (.25). Average accuracy correlations were slightly stronger using CC-SEMs (.21) than traditional methods (.18). Using CC-SEMs, all traits except negative emotionality showed adequate consensus, whereas accuracy was significant only for open-mindedness and extraversion; extraversion emerged only after controlling for laptop type and number-of-stickers. Number-of-stickers partially mediated—or served as a cue for—the accuracy effect linking targets’ self-reports of aesthetic sensitivity to perceivers’ ratings of the same open-mindedness facet.

show abstract

Accuracy in Person Perception

Cited by 3 publications

References 3,128 publications

Status-impact assessment: is accuracy linked with status motivations?

Status-impact assessment: is accuracy linked with status motivations?

Open laptops, open minds: Consensus and accuracy in big five personality perception from laptop stickers

Open Laptops, Open Minds: Consensus and Accuracy in Big Five Personality Perception from Laptop Stickers

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About