The Effects of Judge-Target Gender and Ethnicity Similarity on the Accuracy of Personality Judgments

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5338768
AutoresTera D Letzring (0000-0003-3408-3898, Idaho State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen41
Número1
Páginas42-51
Fecha de publicación2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1864-9335 • E-ISSN: 2151-2590
EditorialHogrefe Publishing Group (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1027/1864-9335/a000007
OpenAlexW2064783034
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas35

One factor that may affect the accuracy of personality judgment is the level of similarity between the judge and the target. In the current study, judges observed four targets with different levels of gender and ethnicity (GE) similarity (same gender and ethnicity, only same gender, only same ethnicity, different gender and ethnicity). Judge-target GE similarity was positively related to the accuracy of personality judgment among female judges, but not among male judges. It was also found that females were both more accurate judges and more accurately judged, but that the combination of both a female judge and a female target only had an additive effect on accuracy. Projection was also related to accuracy. These findings suggest that among the several factors that can be used to predict accuracy, judge-target similarity, gender of the judge, gender of the target, and projection of the judge's personality onto the target are important

Affect (linguistics) · Developmental psychology · Ethnic group · Image (mathematics) · Personality · Political science · Projection (relational algebra) · Similarity (geometry) · Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Computer Science · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology