Consensus in interpersonal perception: acquaintance and the big five.
Psychol Bull
; 116(2): 245-58, 1994 Sep.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-7972592
ABSTRACT
Consensus refers to the extent to which judges agree in their ratings of a common target. Consensus has been an important area of research in social and personality psychology. In this article, generalizability theory is used to develop a percentage of total variance measure of consensus. This measure is used to review the level of consensus across 32 studies by considering the role of acquaintance level and trait dimension. The review indicates that consensus correlations ranged from zero to about .3, with higher levels of consensus for ratings of Extraversion. The studies do not provide evidence that consensus increases with increasing acquaintance, a counterintuitive result that can be accounted for by a theoretical model (D.A. Kenny, 1991, in press). Problems in the interpretation of longitudinal research are reviewed.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Personality
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Social Perception
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Interpersonal Relations
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Psychol Bull
Year:
1994
Document type:
Article