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

Campbell, Jessica T.; Webster, Gregory D.; Turner, Imani N.

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“…Several studies use measures of the Big Five to assess consensus, assumed similarity, or both in personality ratings of various targets, including strangers meeting in-person for the first time (zero-acquaintance personality judgment; Albright et al, 1988) and even people's spaces and objects, such as bedrooms and offices (Gosling et al, 2002), clothing (Naumann et al, 2009), shoes (Gillath et al, 2012), laptop stickers (Campbell et al, 2022), and online-gaming avatars and usernames (Harari et al, 2015).…”

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Personality perception in Game of Thrones: Character consensus and assumed similarity.

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Campbell²

2023

Psychology of Popular Media

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This study examined Big Five and Dark Tetrad personality perception for 56 characters from the popular TV show Game of Thrones—and the book series that inspired it, A Song of Ice and Fire—by 309 fans recruited from 3 relevant subreddits. Specifically, we examined consensus—the extent to which multiple perceivers (participants) rate 1 or more targets (characters) similarly—and assumed similarity—the extent to which perceivers (participants) see targets (characters) as they see themselves. Using cross-classified structural equation models, we found that consensus correlations were significant for all Big Five and Dark Tetrad traits, ranging from .54 for narcissism to .83 for agreeableness (M = .66, SD = .10). Assumed similarity slopes were positive (range: .07–.29; M = .15, SD = .06) and significant for all traits except conscientiousness and open-mindedness. Thus, raters reliably assumed that characters were similar to themselves on 7 of 9 traits. Exploratory sex-differences analyses showed no sex-of-character effects but significant sex-of-perceiver effects for conscientiousness, open-mindedness, and Machiavellianism; women perceived characters to be higher on these traits than men. In addition, women (vs. men) rated themselves as higher on extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness but lower on Machiavellianism. We also present rankings for characters with the highest and lowest scores on each trait. Broadly, this work is important for understanding not only how our perceptions of personality generalize to fictional characters but also how we use fiction characters—and our perceptions of their personalities—to better understand our own social world.

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“…4Following convention (Campbell et al, 2022; Claus et al, 2020), identical items at different levels (i.e., character, rater, observation, and self-report) were constrained to be equal for model parsimony and to aid model convergence.…”

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Personality perception in Game of Thrones: Character consensus and assumed similarity.

Webster¹,

Campbell²

2023

Psychology of Popular Media

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“…Several studies use measures of the Big Five to assess consensus, assumed similarity, or both in personality ratings of various targets, including strangers meeting in-person for the first time (zero-acquaintance personality judgment; e.g., Albright et al, 1988) and even people's spaces and objects, such as bedrooms and offices (Gosling et al, 2002), clothing (Naumann et al, 2009), shoes (Gillath et al, 2012), laptops (Campbell et al, 2021), and online-gaming avatars and usernames (Harari et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Following convention(Claus et al, 2020;Campbell et al, 2021), identical items at different levels (i.e., character, rater, observation, and self-report) were constrained to be equal for model parsimony and to aid model convergence.…”

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Personality Perception in Game of Thrones: Character Consensus and Assumed Similarity

Webster¹,

Campbell²

2021

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This study examined Big Five and Dark Tetrad personality perception for 56 characters from the popular TV show Game of Thrones—and the book series that inspired it, A Song of Ice and Fire—by 309 fans recruited from three relevant subreddits. Specifically, we examined consensus—the extent to which multiple perceivers (participants) rate one or more targets (characters) similarly—and projection (a.k.a. assumed similarity)—the extent to which perceivers (participants) see targets (characters) as they see themselves. Using cross-classified structural equation models (CC-SEMs), we found that consensus correlations were significant for all Big Five and Dark Tetrad traits, ranging from .54 for narcissism to .83 for agreeableness (M = .66, SD = .10). Projection slopes were positive (range: 0.07 to 0.29; M = 0.15, SD = 0.06) and significant for all traits except conscientiousness and open-mindedness. Thus, raters reliably assumed that characters were similar to themselves on 7 of 9 traits. Exploratory sex-differences analyses showed no sex-of-character effects, but significant sex-of-perceiver effects for conscientiousness, open-mindedness, and Machiavellianism; women perceived characters to be higher on these traits than men. In addition, women (vs. men) rated themselves as higher on extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, but lower on Machiavellianism. We also present rankings for characters with the highest and lowest scores on each trait. Broadly, this work is important not only for understanding how our perceptions of personality generalize to fictional characters, but also how we use fiction characters—and our perceptions of their personalities—to better understand our own social world.

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

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Personality perception in Game of Thrones: Character consensus and assumed similarity.

Personality perception in Game of Thrones: Character consensus and assumed similarity.

Personality Perception in Game of Thrones: Character Consensus and Assumed Similarity

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