Seeing me, seeing you: Testing competing accounts of assumed similarity in personality judgments.

Isabel Thielmann; Benjamin E. Hilbig; Ingo Zettler

doi:10.1037/pspp0000222

Seeing me, seeing you: Testing competing accounts of assumed similarity in personality judgments.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ◽

10.1037/pspp0000222 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 118 (1) ◽

pp. 172-198 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Isabel Thielmann ◽

Benjamin E. Hilbig ◽

Ingo Zettler

Keyword(s):

Personality Judgments ◽

Assumed Similarity

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Lots of target variance: An update of SRM using the HEXACO personality inventory

European Journal of Personality ◽

10.1002/per.764 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 169-188 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Reinout E. de Vries

Keyword(s):

Social Relations ◽

Work Groups ◽

Rater Bias ◽

Social Relations Model ◽

The Social ◽

Intraclass Correlations ◽

Personality Questionnaires ◽

Low Levels ◽

Personality Judgments ◽

Assumed Similarity

According to previous studies based on the Social Relations Model (SRM), most of the variance in observer reports of personality is perceiver and relationship variance, and not much is target variance. However, most SRM studies have employed short adjective scales instead of personality questionnaires. Results based on the HEXACO‐PI‐R in family and work groups showed high levels of consensus (target variance) and self‐other agreement for all traits and, except for Honesty–Humility and Openness to Experience, low levels of generalized rater bias (perceiver variance) and of assumed similarity. Additionally, intraclass correlations suggested a 'group personality' for some traits. The findings suggest that the use of personality questionnaires in Social Relations Analyses may promote higher estimates of consensus in personality judgments. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Seeing and Feeling Your Way to Accurate Personality Judgments

Social Psychological and Personality Science ◽

10.1177/1948550617691097 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (7) ◽

pp. 806-815 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Douglas E. Colman ◽

Tera D. Letzring ◽

Jeremy C. Biesanz

Keyword(s):

Personality Trait ◽

Perspective Taking ◽

Empathic Concern ◽

Point Of View ◽

Previous Literature ◽

Systematic Research ◽

Personal Distress ◽

Personality Judgments ◽

Assumed Similarity ◽

Trait Judgment

Empathy, the practice of taking and emotionally identifying with another’s point of view, is a skill that likely provides context to another’s behavior. Yet systematic research on its relation with accurate personality trait judgment is sparse. This study investigated this relation between one’s empathic response tendencies (perspective taking, empathic concern, fantasy, and personal distress) and the accuracy with which she or he makes judgments of others. Using four different samples ( N = 1,153), the tendency to perspective take ( ds = .23–.27) and show empathic concern ( ds = .28–.42) were all positively related meta-analytically to distinctive accuracy, normative accuracy, and the assumed similarity of trait judgments. However, the empathic tendencies for fantasy and personal distress showed more complex patterns of relation. These findings are discussed in relation to previous literature, and in particular, why it is reasonable for empathy to be related to the accuracy of trait judgments.

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