An Index of Self-Allocation on a Cold-Warm Personality Dimension

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Abstract
The author has described a pair-comparisons scale for determining the position of a person upon a cold-warm continuum. The scale contains 153 pairs of items, but only 80 of these pairs are used in scoring. These 80 pairs offer choice between each of 10 adjectives reported by Asch (1946) and others (e.g., Stevenson & Ferguson, 1968) to be affected by the cold-warm concept in person-perception studies and each of eight adjectives not affected by the cold-warm concept. Validity is demonstrated by showing that parties to two-person interviews most frequently assign warm-related adjectives to warm Ss; next-most frequently, to intermediate Ss; least frequently, to cold Ss. Reliability of the scale as a self-descriptive device is reported to be .74.

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