Information quantity and quality affect the realistic accuracy of personality judgment.
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Vol. 91 (1) , 111-123
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.91.1.111
Abstract
Triads of unacquainted college students interacted in 1 of 5 experimental conditions that manipulated information quantity (amount of information) and information quality (relevance of information to personality), and they then made judgments of each others' personalities. To determine accuracy, the authors compared the ratings of each judge to a broad-based accuracy criterion composed of personality ratings from 3 types of knowledgeable informants (the self, real-life acquaintances, and clinician-interviewers). Results supported the hypothesis that information quantity and quality would be positively related to objective knowledge about the targets and realistic accuracy. Interjudge consensus and self-other agreement followed a similar pattern. These findings are consistent with expectations based on models of the process of accurate judgment (D. C. Funder, 1995, 1999) and consensus (D. A. Kenny, 1994).Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH42427)
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