Consensus between self-ratings and stranger ratings of personality traits was investigated. A
sample of 100 adults was videotaped while entering and walking through a room, sitting …

This research focused on the target effect on a perceiver's judgments of personality when
the perceiver and the target are unacquainted. The perceiver was given no opportunity to …

We examined the effect of acquaintanceship on interjudge agreement in personality ratings.
Approximately 150 undergraduates described their own personalities using the Q-sort. They …

ABSTRACT The Big Five have not only been identified in ratings of knowledgeable
informants, but also in ratings of strangers, in co‐occurrence likelihood ratings of traits, in …

A strong argument has been made for specifying the possible characteristics of personality
by using trait adjectives from the natural language. This argument implies a rationale for the …

Several studies have shown above-chance agreement of self-reports on extraversion and
conscientiousness with ratings by strangers, indicating that ratings by strangers might be …

This study tested the prediction that 3 variables—self-reported trait relevance, consistency,
and observability—would moderate correlations between self-ratings and peer ratings …

Self-reports, peer reports, intelligence tests, and ratings of personality and intelligence from
15 videotaped episodes were collected for 600 participants. The average cross-situational …

Although strangers can assess certain traits of unacquainted others with moderate validity,
overall validity is low. Differential validity across traits may be due to (1) the extent to which …

Assesses agreement as a function of the trait being judged, the information presented, and
individual differences to spontaneously use particular trait dimensions. In Experiment 1 …