“…The pattern was reversed for absolute judgments regarding the acquaintance ( M = 0.26 and M = 0.52, for self-to-acquaintance and acquaintance-toself comparisons, respectively; F 1, 78 = 6.07, p < .05, η 2 p = 0.07). This fi nding is consistent with results of prior studies showing that in comparative judgments what is known about the target contributes to the judgment more than what is known about the referent ( Kruger, 1999 ;Eiser, Pahl, & Prins, 2001 ;Kruger & Burns, 2004 ;Pahl, Eiser, & White, 2009 ;Suls, Chambers, Krizan, Mortensen, Koestner, & Bruchmann, 2010 ). What follows from this is that absolute judgments regarding target should correlate with comparative judgments stronger than absolute judgments regarding the referent, the pattern of results found in the present experiment.…”