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Learning about the process of accurate personality judgments can be used to help people understand when and how they are more likely to make accurate judgments. This handbook offers a thorough, evidence-based, and up-to-date review of this research field.
List of contents
- Part I. History, Theory, and Measurement
- Chapter 1. The Accuracy of Personality Trait Judgments: An Introduction- Jana S. Spain
- Chapter 2. The Realistic Accuracy Model - Tera D. Letzring and David C. Funder
- Chapter 3. Social Relations Modeling of Interpersonal Accuracy - Thomas E. Malloy
- Chapter 4. Lens and Dual Lens Models - Sarah Osterholz, Simon Breil, Steffen Nestler, and Mitja D. Back
- Chapter 5. The Social Accuracy Model - Jeremy C. Biesanz
- Part II. Moderators of Accuracy
- Chapter 6. Characteristics of the Judge that are Related to Accuracy - Douglas E. Colman
- Chapter 7. The Good Target of Personality Judgments - Marie-Catherine Mignault and Lauren J. Human
- Chapter 8. Characteristics of Traits that are Related to Accuracy of Personality Judgments - Sheherezade L. Krzyzaniak and Tera D. Letzring
- Chapter 9. Information as a Moderator of Accuracy in Personality Judgment - Andrew Beer
- Part III. Judging the Self
- Chapter 10. The Self-Other Knowledge Asymmetry (SOKA) Model - Kathryn L. Bollich-Ziegler
- Chapter 11. The Accuracy of Self-Judgments of Personality - Jana S. Spain
- Chapter 12. Figuring Out How Others See Us: The Formation of Accurate Meta-Perceptions - Erika N. Carlson and Norhan Elsaadawy
- Part IV. Use of Nonverbal Cues and Other Information in Trait Judgments
- Chapter 13. Contributions of Nonverbal Cues to the Accurate Judgment of Personality Traits - Simon Breil, Sarah Osterholz, Steffen Nestler, and Mitja D. Back
- Chapter 14. Accuracy of Personality Trait Judgments Based on Environmental and Social Media Cues - Helen J. Wall and Claire Campbell
- Chapter 15. The Role of Normative Information in Judgments of Others - Katherine H. Rogers
- Chapter 16. The Accuracy of Stereotypes About Personality - Lee Jussim, Sean Stevens, and Nate Honeycutt
- Part V. Implications and Applications of Trait Accuracy Research
- Chapter 17. Accuracy and Bias of Trait Judgments in Romantic Relationships - Shanhong Luo and David Watson
- Chapter 18. Self-Other Agreement on Personality Disorder Symptoms and Traits: Three Meta-Analyses - Joshua R. Oltmanns and Thomas F. Oltmanns
- Chapter 19. Trait Accuracy in the Workplace - Melinda C. Blackman
- Chapter 20. Training and Improving Accuracy of Personality Trait Judgments - Danielle Blanch-Hartigan and Krista M. Hill Cummings
- Part VI.
- Chapter 21. Conclusions and Future Directions for the Study of Accurate Personality Judgment - Tera D. Letzring
About the author
Tera D. Letzring is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Experimental Psychology PhD program at Idaho State University. She earned a PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Riverside in 2005, and a BA in Psychology from the University of Puget Sound in 1999. Dr. Letzring's research focuses on the interpersonal accuracy of judgments of personality, and in particular on the factors that moderate accuracy.
Jana S. Spain is a Professor of Psychology at High Point University. She earned her MA and PhD from the University of California, Riverside in 1994 and a BA in Psychology from San Diego State University in 1988. Dr. Spain's research focuses on the link between personality and daily life experience and the accuracy of personality judgments.
Summary
Learning about the process of accurate personality judgments can be used to help people understand when and how they are more likely to make accurate judgments. This handbook offers a thorough, evidence-based, and up-to-date review of this research field.
