Characteristics of Traits That Are Related to Accuracy of Personality Judgments

Krzyzaniak, Sheherezade L.; Letzring, Tera D.

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“…Our findings build upon previous work within personality research, providing an alternative to subjective measures of the visibility (or "observability") of social attributes (ease of judging an attribute; see Krzyzaniak & Letzring, 2019), focusing instead on the more objectively quantifiable link between consensus and accuracy. Our work also expands personalityfocused models of person perception to social attributes more broadly.…”

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Consensus Enables Accurate Social Judgments

Bjornsdottir

Hehman

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2021

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Ubiquitous to theories of social perception is an assumed relationship between an attribute’s (e.g., intelligence) “signal” and judgment accuracy, with accuracy impossible without the presence and consensual use of signal. Yet this foundational assumption remains untested. Our investigation focused on consensus (quantified using intraclass correlations, ICCs), which should suggest signal availability, according to theories of accurate social perception. Study 1 confirmed that judgments of different social attributes exhibit different degrees of consensus. Study 2 specifically tested the consensus → accuracy link, anticipating that social judgments with higher consensus (target ICCs) would show greater judgment accuracy. Using 497,780 judgments of 3,847 targets from 4,162 participants across 45 data sets testing a broad variety of social judgments, we found that consensus moderated the relationship between targets’ self-report and participants’ judgments: Judgment accuracy was higher when consensus was higher. Results show the first empirical support for a foundational assumption of theories of social perception.

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Consensus Enables Accurate Social Judgments

Bjornsdottir

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2021

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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“…2.9. Levels of self-other agreement and accuracy vary across traits (Krzyzaniak & Letzring, 2021), which supports the notion that some traits tend to be judged more accu rately than others. Specifically, extraversion is most consistently judged with moderately high levels of self-other agreement and accuracy, and neuroticism is usually associated with the lowest levels of self-other agreement and accuracy (Beer & Watson, 2008b).…”

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The judgment of personality: An overview of current empirical research findings

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This article presents an overview of the current state of knowledge in personality judgment research. We discuss accuracy and bias in personality judgments, including types of inter-rater agreement and elements of criteria used to determine levels of agreement and accuracy. We then address 1) the words and phrases that people use to describe one another and themselves, 2) research investigating judgments of targets by perceivers per trait, and 3) research investigating judgments of targets by perceivers on profiles or sets of traits. We also provide 4) an outlook regarding important research questions that remain unanswered in this field.

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“…2.9. Levels of self-other agreement and accuracy vary across traits (Krzyzaniak & Letzring, 2021), which supports the notion that some traits tend to be judged more accurately than others. Specifically, extraversion is most consistently judged with moderately high levels of self-other agreement and accuracy, and neuroticism is usually associated with the lowest levels of selfother agreement and accuracy (Beer & Watson, 2008b).…”

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The Judgment of Personality: An Overview of Current Empirical Research Findings

Letzring¹,

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Allik³

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This article presents an overview of the current state of knowledge in personality judgment research. We address (1) the words and phrases that people use to describe one another and themselves, (2) research in the “variable-centered” tradition, which investigates judgments of targets by perceivers on single traits, and (3) research investigating judgments of targets by perceivers on whole profiles of traits. Our focus is on inter-rater agreement, accuracy, and bias. We also provide (4) an outlook regarding important research questions that remain to be answered in this field. Although we consider our attempt to jointly identify the most robust evidence in the field to be largely successful, we acknowledge that the process of consensus building was fairly difficult. Thus, we close with a number of concrete suggestions for making such collaborative-writing processes as constructive as possible.

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Characteristics of Traits That Are Related to Accuracy of Personality Judgments

Cited by 9 publications

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Consensus Enables Accurate Social Judgments

Consensus Enables Accurate Social Judgments

The judgment of personality: An overview of current empirical research findings

The Judgment of Personality: An Overview of Current Empirical Research Findings

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