Accuracy of Person Perception
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 8 (2) , 247-256
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167282082011
Abstract
Androgynous, sex-typed, and undifferentiated subjects predicted the responses of androgynous, sex-typed, and undifferentiated others to masculine, feminine, and neutral situations. The self-report criterion data replicated the findings of Helmreich, Spence, & Holahan (1979). In accordance with Cronbach's (1955) suggestion, separate correlational measures of person accuracy, situation accuracy, and person-by-situation accuracy were computed. Subjects were more accurate at predicting person effects and situation effects than person-by-situation interactions. Females-particularly feminine-typed females-were best at making person predictions, while males-particularly masculine-typed and androgynous males were best at making situation predictions.Keywords
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