Perception of cross-situational consistency

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6197846
AutoresSeymour Epstein (autor de correspondencia), Laurie Teraspulsky
Año1986
Volumen50
Número6
Páginas1152-1160
Fecha de publicación1986-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
EditorialAmerican Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1037//0022-3514.50.6.1152
PMID3723332
OpenAlexW4255364652
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas15

Eighty-eight undergraduates rated the degree of relation in each of 21 pairs of items that described behavior in the domains of conscientiousness, friendliness, and extraversion. In these three domains, estimates of relations by the average subject correlated, respectively, with actual empirical relations, .63, .58, and .40. Relations corresponding to correlations between .10 to .20 could be significantly distinguished by subjects from relations in the range of .00 to .10 in two of the three domains. The confidence that individuals placed in their perceptions varied directly with the accuracy of their judgments against the empirical criterion. In addition, subjects were more confident of what they perceived to be extreme relations in both directions than of intermediate relations, and they also tended to be more confident of their judgments of strong positive relations than of zero relations. They exhibited an intuitive awareness of the effect of aggregation over occasions and items of behavior on the magnitude of cross-situational relations and the demonstration of traits. They also reported using reasonable strategies in arriving at decisions. Far from being inveterate trait believers, as some have suggested, subjects' intuitions paralleled psychometric principles in several important respects when assessing relations between real-life behaviors

Big Five personality traits · Cognitive psychology · Conscientiousness · Consistency (knowledge bases · Extraversion and introversion · Perception · Personality · Situational ethics · Social perception · Social relation · Trait · Applied Psychology · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Computer Science · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Mathematics · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Social Psychology · Team Dynamics and Performance