The Good Judge Revisited: Individual Differences in the Accuracy of Personality Judgments

Christiansen, Neil Douglas; Wolcott-Burnam, Shaina; Janovics, Jay; Burns, Gary N.; Quirk, Stuart W.

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“…Although some subtle individual differences in the ability to judge others' personality have been observed, no large between-individual differences have been discovered in the judgment of personality traits (Bayne, 1985;Christiansen, Wolcott-Burnam, Janovics, Burns, & Quirk, 2005;Ickes, Buysse, et al, 2000;Letzring, 2008;McLarney-Vesotski, Bernieri, & Rempala, 2011;Taft, 1955). There are, of course, individual differences in empathic accuracy -another name for self-other agreement -but they do not seem to be either large or systematic (Davis & Kraus, 1997;Ickes, 1997).…”

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Why are moderators of self-other agreement difficult to establish?

Allik

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Realo

2016

Journal of Research in Personality

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Agreement between the self and other rated personality profiles was studied in two samples involving 11,096 speakers of two languages, Dutch and Estonian, who completed two different personality questionnaires, the NEO-PI-3 and HEXACO-PI-R. An outstanding agreement was achieved in the most occasions: in only 4-6% of dyadic pairs was the correlation between two randomly paired profiles higher than the actually observed correlation between true pairs. As in previous studies, we found that age and sex of participants and length of acquaintance had no significant effect on the level of self-other agreement. However, intimate knowledge helped married and unmarried couples in both samples be more accurate in their personality judgments; family members, in turn, had knowledge that made them more accurate than two people who were just acquaintances or friends. We believe that these outcomes can be explained by the contention that the judgment of another's personality is a relatively simple task, which is

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Why are moderators of self-other agreement difficult to establish?

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2016

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“…Psychologists have developed measures of some of the specific abilities involved, such as knowledge of traits, and of the overall intelligence (Christiansen et al, 2005;Mayer et al, 2012). They also have developed scales that measure many different kinds of reasoning in the area.…”

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“…People who score high on Christiansen et al's (2005) scale of dispositional intelligence are better able than low scorers at identifying how job applicants in a video described their personalities. Finally, people who draw accurate conclusions from reading paragraph-length descriptions of a person's behavior, as opposed to misreading the situation or drawing black-and-white or biased perceptions, also score higher on the TOPI MINI-12 (Allen and Mayer, in preparation).…”

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“…Overall accurate self-knowledge (i.e., smaller discrepancies) correlated with well-being. l Trait Understanding: Christiansen et al (2005) developed a measure of 'dispositional intelligence,' a test-taker's knowledge of traits including how traits relate to behaviors and to situations. For example, the following item from their test asks about trait-behavior relationships:…”

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Personal Intelligence and Competencies

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Panter³

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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“…The theory of personal intelligence predicts that some people will be better than others at noticing and labeling parts and anticipating people's behaviors on that basis. Christiansen et al (2005) assessed people's understanding in this area by asking study participants to identify traits that go together. A sample test item read:…”

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Journal of Research in Personality

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The personality systems framework is a fieldwide outline for organizing the contemporary science of personality. I examine the theoretical impact of systems thinking on the discipline and, drawing on ideas from general systems theory, argue that personality psychologists understand individuals' personalities by studying four topics: (a) personality's definition, (b) personality's parts (e.g., traits, schemas, etc.), (c) its organization and (d) development. This framework draws on theories from the field to create a global view of personality including its position and major areas of function. The global view gives rise to new theories such as personal intelligence-the idea that people guide themselves with a broad intelligence they use to reason about personalities.

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The Good Judge Revisited: Individual Differences in the Accuracy of Personality Judgments

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Why are moderators of self-other agreement difficult to establish?

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