Personality Judgment: A Realistic Approach to Person Perception
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Table of contents
- Contentsix
- Prefacexiii
- Acknowledgmentsxv
- Chapter 1. Approaching Accuracy1
- Curiosity and Its Fulfillment2
- What Is Accuracy?3
- Chapter Organization4
- The Importance of Accuracy4
- Three Propositions11
- Social and Personality Psychology: Separation and Integration13
- Renewed Research on Accuracy23
- The Agenda of Accuracy Research and Plan for the Book25
- Chapter 2. The Very Existence of Personality27
- Does Personality Exist?27
- The Situational Onslaught28
- The Response32
- Do Personality Traits Explain Anything?52
- Personality Reafirmed54
- Chapter 3. Error and Accuracy in the Study of Personality Judgment57
- Evolution of Research on Accuracy and Error58
- Accuracy in Human Social Judgment73
- Toward a Rapprochement between Error and Accuracy78
- Chapter 4. Methodological and Philosophical Considerations81
- The Lessons of Cronbach81
- The Criterion Problem83
- Interjudge Agreement89
- Behavioral Prediction106
- General Issues of Design and Analysis111
- Conclusion115
- Chapter 5. The Process of Accurate Personality Judgment117
- The Realistic Accuracy Model117
- The Structure of RAM120
- Implications of the Realistic Accuracy Model123
- The Four Steps to Accurate Personality Judgment125
- Multiple Cues and Multiple Traits134
- The Goals of RAM135
- Chapter 6. Moderators of Accuracy137
- The Good Judge138
- The Good Target146
- The Good Trait152
- Good Information155
- Interactions among Moderators162
- Conclusion168
- Chapter 7. Self-Knowledge169
- Self-Perception versus Other-Perception169
- Application of RAM to Self-Judgment177
- Conclusion186
- Chapter 8. Prospects for Improving Accuracy187
- Relevance188
- Availability190
- Detection191
- Utilization192
- The Judge’s Situation206
- References209
- Index231
Accuracy in judging personality is important in clinical assessment, applied settings, and everyday life. Personality judgments are important in assessing job candidates, choosing friends, and determining who we can trust and rely on in our personal lives. Thus, the accuracy of those judgments is important to both individuals and organizations.
In examining personality judgment, this book takes a sweeping look at the field's history, assumptions, and current research findings. The book explores the construct of traits within the person-situation debate, defends the human judge in the face of the fundamental attribution error, and discusses research on four categories of moderators in judgment: the good judge, the judgeable target, the trait being judged, and the information on which the judgment is based.
Spanning two decades of accuracy research, this book makes clear not only how personality judgment has come to its current standing but also where it may move in the future.
* * Covers 20 years worth of historical, current and future trends in personality judgment.
* * Includes discussions of debatable issues related to accuracy and error. The author is well known for his recently developed theoy of the process by which one person may render an accurate judgment of the personality traits of another.
In examining personality judgment, this book takes a sweeping look at the field's history, assumptions, and current research findings. The book explores the construct of traits within the person-situation debate, defends the human judge in the face of the fundamental attribution error, and discusses research on four categories of moderators in judgment: the good judge, the judgeable target, the trait being judged, and the information on which the judgment is based.
Spanning two decades of accuracy research, this book makes clear not only how personality judgment has come to its current standing but also where it may move in the future.
* * Covers 20 years worth of historical, current and future trends in personality judgment.
* * Includes discussions of debatable issues related to accuracy and error. The author is well known for his recently developed theoy of the process by which one person may render an accurate judgment of the personality traits of another.