Exploring beyond simple demographic variables: Differences between traditional laboratory samples and crowdsourced online samples on the Big Five personality traits

Colman, Douglas E.; Vineyard, Jared; Letzring, Tera D.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.06.023

“…Simmons et al, 2012; see complete PAIRS documentations in the OSF: osf.io/akbfj for additional details regarding procedures and other measures collected). Analyses from this dataset have been published elsewhere (Beck & Jackson, 2018;Colman, Vineyard, & Letzring, 2017;Edwards & Holtzman, 2017;Finnigan & Vazire, 2017;Solomon & Vazire, 2014;Sun, Schwartz, Son, Kern, & Vazire, 2018;Wilson, Thompson, & Vazire, 2017), but none of the presented results reported here overlap with any of the other published work.…”

Section: Studycontrasting

confidence: 56%

Zooming into Real-Life Extraversion – how Personality and Situation Shape Sociability in Social Interactions

Breil

¹

,

Geukes

²

,

Wilson

³

et al. 2019

Collabra: Psychology

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What predicts sociable behavior? While main effects of personality and situation characteristics on sociability are well established, there is little evidence for the existence of person-situation interaction effects within real-life social interactions. Moreover, previous research has focused on self-reported behavior ratings, and less is known about the partner's social perspective, i.e. how partners perceive and influence an actor's behavior. In the current research, we investigated predictors of sociable behavior in real-life social interactions across social perspectives, including person and situation main effects as well as person-situation interaction effects. In two experience-sampling studies (Study 1: N = 394, US, time-based; Study 2: N = 124, Germany, event-based), we assessed personality traits with self-and informant-reports, self-reported sociable behavior during real-life social interactions, and corresponding information on the situation (categorical situation classifications and dimensional ratings of situation characteristics). In Study 2, we additionally assessed interaction partner-reported actor behavior. Multilevel analyses provided evidence for main effects of personality and situation features, as well as small but consistent evidence for person-situation interaction effects. First, extraverts acted more sociable in general. Second, individuals behaved more sociable in low-effort/positive/low-duty situations (vs. high-effort/negative/high-duty situations). Third, the latter was particularly true for extraverts. Further specific interaction effects were found for the partner's social perspective. These results are discussed regarding their accordance with different behavioral models (e.g., Trait Activation Theory) and their transferability to other behavioral domains.

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“…Simmons et al, 2012; see complete PAIRS documentations in the OSF: osf.io/akbfj for additional details regarding procedures and other measures collected). Analyses from this dataset have been published elsewhere (Beck & Jackson, 2018;Colman, Vineyard, & Letzring, 2017;Edwards & Holtzman, 2017;Finnigan & Vazire, 2017;Solomon & Vazire, 2014;Sun, Schwartz, Son, Kern, & Vazire, 2018;Wilson, Thompson, & Vazire, 2017), but none of the presented results reported here overlap with any of the other published work.…”

Section: Studycontrasting

confidence: 56%

Zooming into Real-Life Extraversion – How Personality and Situation Shape Sociability in Social Interactions

Breil¹,

Geukes²,

Wilson³

et al. 2016

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What predicts sociable behavior? While main effects of personality and situation characteristics on sociability are well established, there is little evidence for the existence of person-situation interaction effects within real-life social interactions. Moreover, previous research has focused on self-reported behavior ratings, and less is known about the partner's social perspective, i.e. how partners perceive and influence an actor's behavior. In the current research, we investigated predictors of sociable behavior in real-life social interactions across social perspectives, including person and situation main effects as well as person-situation interaction effects. In two experience-sampling studies (Study 1: N = 394, US, time-based; Study 2: N = 124, Germany, event-based), we assessed personality traits with self-and informant-reports, self-reported sociable behavior during real-life social interactions, and corresponding information on the situation (categorical situation classifications and dimensional ratings of situation characteristics). In Study 2, we additionally assessed interaction partner-reported actor behavior. Multilevel analyses provided evidence for main effects of personality and situation features, as well as small but consistent evidence for person-situation interaction effects. First, extraverts acted more sociable in general. Second, individuals behaved more sociable in low-effort/positive/low-duty situations (vs. high-effort/negative/high-duty situations). Third, the latter was particularly true for extraverts. Further specific interaction effects were found for the partner's social perspective. These results are discussed regarding their accordance with different behavioral models (e.g., Trait Activation Theory) and their transferability to other behavioral domains.

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“…We used data from the first wave of the longitudinal Personality and Interpersonal Roles Study (PAIRS; Vazire et al, 2017). Other manuscripts have used the ESM personality state variables (Beck & Jackson, 2018;Breil et al, 2018;Finnigan & Vazire, 2017;Wilson, Harris, & Vazire, 2015;Wilson, Thompson, & Vazire, 2016) and other variables from this dataset (Colman, Vineyard, & Letzring, 2016;Edwards & Holtzman, 2017;Solomon & Vazire, 2016), but this is the first manuscript that examines within-person associations between self-reported and EAR-coded behavior.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do People Know What They’re Like in the Moment?

Sun

¹

,

Vazire

²

2019

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Knowing yourself requires knowing not just what you are like in general (trait self-knowledge), but also how your personality fluctuates from moment to moment (state self-knowledge). We examined this latter form of self-knowledge. Participants (248 people; 2,938 observations) wore the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR), an unobtrusive audio recorder, and completed experience sampling (ESM) self-reports of their personality states four times each day for one week. We estimated state self-knowledge by comparing self-reported personality states to consensual observer ratings of personality states coded from the EAR files, which formed the criterion for what participants were "actually" like in the moment. People had self-insight into their momentary extraversion, conscientiousness, and likely neuroticism, suggesting that people can accurately detect fluctuations in some aspects of their personality. However, the evidence for self-insight was weaker for agreeableness. This apparent self-ignorance may be partly responsible for interpersonal problems and for blind spots in trait self-knowledge.

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Exploring beyond simple demographic variables: Differences between traditional laboratory samples and crowdsourced online samples on the Big Five personality traits

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Zooming into Real-Life Extraversion – How Personality and Situation Shape Sociability in Social Interactions

Do People Know What They’re Like in the Moment?

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