On being and feeling transparent: Examining expressive accuracy awareness in first impressions of personality and links to well-being

Mignault, Marie-Catherine; Heyman, Jennifer L.; Biesanz, Jeremy C.; Human, Lauren J.

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104185

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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“…Conceptually, this finding also suggests that individuals who tend to be seen as they see themselves (more than others do), which is a form of the good target, are also more aware of their reputation. This is also consistent with M. C. Mignault et al (2022), finding that good targets know that they are seen accurately. Thus, good targets not only enjoy better well-being (e.g., Human et al, 2021), they also seem to enjoy greater social acuity in the form of generalized meta-accuracy.…”

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Examining individual differences in metaperceptive accuracy using the social meta-accuracy model.

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Elsaadawy,

Biesanz

et al. 2023

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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To what extent do individuals differ in understanding how others see them and who is particularly good at it? Answering these questions about the "good metaperceiver" is relevant given the beneficial outcomes of meta-accuracy. However, there likely is more than one type of the good metaperceiver: One who knows the specific impressions they make more than others do (dyadic meta-accuracy) and one who knows their reputation more than others do (generalized meta-accuracy). To identify and understand these good metaperceivers, we introduce the social meta-accuracy model (SMAM) as a statistical and conceptual framework and apply the SMAM to four samples of first impression interactions. As part of our demonstration, we also investigated the routes to and the correlates of both types of good metaperceivers. Results from SMAM show that, overall, people were able to detect the unique and general first impressions they made, but there was little evidence for individual differences in dyadic meta-accuracy in a first impression. In contrast, there were substantial individual differences in generalized meta-accuracy, and this ability was largely explained by being transparent (i.e., good metaperceivers were seen as they saw themselves). We also observed some evidence that good generalized metaperceivers in a first impression tend to be extraverted and popular. This work demonstrated that the SMAM is a useful tool for identifying and understanding both types of good metaperceivers and paves the way for future work on individual differences in meta-accuracy in other contexts.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Section: The Good Generalized Metaperceiver Achieves Accuracy By Bein...supporting

confidence: 86%

Examining individual differences in metaperceptive accuracy using the social meta-accuracy model.

Hater,

Elsaadawy,

Biesanz

et al. 2023

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…Conceptually, this finding also suggests that individuals who tend to be seen as they see themselves (more than others do), which is a form of the good target, are also more aware of their reputation. This is also consistent with Mignault et al (2022), finding that good targets know that they are seen accurately. Thus, good targets not only enjoy better wellbeing (e.g., Human et al, 2021), they also seem to enjoy greater social acuity in the form of generalized meta-accuracy.…”

Section: The Good Generalized Meta-perceiver Achieves Accuracy By Bei...supporting

confidence: 84%

“…Portions of Study 3 were reported in Wallace and Biesanz (2021). Portions of data from Study 4 have been previously analyzed and reported in published work (Bjornsdottir et al, 2022;Heyman et al, 2022;Mignault et al, 2022;.…”

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Hater_etal_The Social Meta-Accuracy Model_JPSP_preprint

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To what extent do individuals differ in understanding how others see them and who is particularly good at it? Answering these questions about the “good meta-perceiver” is relevant given the beneficial outcomes of meta-accuracy. However, there likely is more than one type of the good meta-perceiver: one who knows the specific impressions they make more than others do (dyadic meta-accuracy) and one who knows their reputation more than others do (generalized meta-accuracy). To identify and understand these good meta-perceivers, we introduce the Social Meta-Accuracy Model (SMAM) as a statistical and conceptual framework and apply the SMAM to four samples of first impression interactions. As part of our demonstration, we also investigated the routes to and the correlates of both types of good meta-perceivers. Results from SMAM show that, overall, people were able to detect the unique and general first impressions they made, but there was little evidence for individual differences in dyadic meta-accuracy in a first impression. In contrast, there were substantial individual differences in generalized meta-accuracy, and this ability was largely explained by being transparent (i.e., good meta-perceivers were seen as they saw themselves). We also observed some evidence that good generalized meta-perceivers in a first impression tend to be extraverted and popular. This work demonstrated that the SMAM is a useful tool for identifying and understanding both types of good meta-perceivers and paves the way for future work on individual differences in meta-accuracy in other contexts.

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“…The In-person Group Study was conducted with participants from the same population and used the same measure of Big Five traits (Soto & John, 2017), but differed in that participants interacted in groups and worked on a different task. The In-Person Dyadic Study was conducted with undergraduates from a different university (Mignault et al, 2022), but like CMORR featured dyadic get-to-know-you interactions. These studies provide useful points of comparison, but neither should be interpreted as a pure control condition.…”

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The Computer-Mediated Online Round Robin (CMORR): An Online Method for Studying Impressions and Social Interactions

Hughes,

Srivastava

2024

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Research on impressions and social interactions has predominately examined perceptions of artificial stimuli or those made by convenience samples of undergraduates. In the present work, we introduce and validate a new experimental method, the Computer-Mediated Online Round Robin (CMORR), with the aim of providing researchers a tool to extend the study of interpersonal phenomena to more diverse populations. We describe the method and provide guidance for future CMORR studies. We collected CMORR data from an undergraduate sample ( N = 171), and compared the structure and accuracy of impressions of Big Five personality trait to two in-person studies; one with group interactions ( N = 225), one with dyadic interactions ( N = 511), and meta-analytic estimates from the literature. The results showed a general correspondence between impressions formed in online interactions and in in-person contexts. The findings support using CMORR to study general questions about impressions and social interactions.

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On being and feeling transparent: Examining expressive accuracy awareness in first impressions of personality and links to well-being

Cited by 7 publications

References 123 publications

Examining individual differences in metaperceptive accuracy using the social meta-accuracy model.

Examining individual differences in metaperceptive accuracy using the social meta-accuracy model.

Hater_etal_The Social Meta-Accuracy Model_JPSP_preprint

The Computer-Mediated Online Round Robin (CMORR): An Online Method for Studying Impressions and Social Interactions

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