What was the boundary on the acquaintanceship effect identified by Colvin and funder 1991 )?

@article{Colvin1991PredictingPA, title={Predicting personality and behavior: a boundary on the acquaintanceship effect.}, author={C. Randall Colvin and David C. Funder}, journal={Journal of personality and social psychology}, year={1991}, volume={60 6}, pages={ 884-94 } }

Recent research has shown that interjudge agreement in personality ratings increases with acquaintanceship. The present study sought to replicate and extend this finding by investigating the relation between acquaintanceship and behavioral prediction. A total of 138 undergraduate targets were videotaped while interacting with an opposite-sex partner in 3 situations. The targets also completed 5 personality measures. Results indicated that acquaintances' judgments predicted personality scores… 

The results rule out overlap, communication, and assumed similarity as necessary bases of interJudge agreement and thereby support the simpler hypothesis that interjudge agreement stems from mutual accuracy.

Results support that 6 factors represent the Personal Acquaintance Measure (PAM), which showed evidence of internal consistency, test-retest reliability over 3 weeks, sensitivity to known group differences, discriminant validity from socially desirable responding, and convergent validity with other relationship inventories.

The findings speak to the general accuracy of personality judgments, the development of methods to improve accuracy, and the value of reintegrating traditionally separate concerns of personality and social psychology.

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  • Psychology

  • 2017

Self- and other-ratings on the Big Five and a comprehensive inventory of trait affect were obtained and cross-sample comparisons indicated that agreement was significantly higher in the married sample than in the other 2 groups; however, analyses of 3 potential moderators in the dating and friendship samples failed to identify the source of this acquaintanceship effect.

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  • D. Vogt, C. R. Colvin
  • Psychology

    Journal of personality

  • 2003

A conceptual framework was presented and methods used that overcome many of the problems encountered in past research on judgmental accuracy and preliminary findings suggested that interpersonally oriented individuals may sometimes draw on information about themselves and about stereotypical others to facilitate accurate judgments of others.

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  • Psychology

  • 1992

Previous studies have used cross-sectional designs to demonstrate the beneficial effect of acquaintanceship on the validity of personality impressions. To counter critiques of those studies, a

Judgability" discriminates people who are open and knowable from those who are closed and enigmatic. The current study investigated this individual difference characteristic and its personality and

By using a round-robin design, groups of freshmen reported their impressions of dormmates at 4 different times during the year, and the role of agreement in evaluations is explored as a determining factor in the level of obtained consensus.

As length of acquaintance increased, self-other agreement and consensus differential accuracy increased, stereotype accuracy decreased, and trait-level or raw profile correlations generally remained unchanged, the predictions based on the weighted average model remained unchanged.

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The results imply that agreement among acquaintances' judgments must derive at least partly from experience with and observation of the person who is judged, and that people are intuitively knowledgeable about the traits they can judge with more and less agreement.

This research focused on the target effect on a perceiver's judgments of personality when the perceiver and the target are unacquainted, and found evidence that the consensus in judgments on these two dimensions had some validity, in that they correlated with self-judgments on those two dimensions.

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In a study exploring the cross-situational consistency of behavior, 140 undergraduate Ss were video-taped in each of 3 laboratory settings, and personality descriptions of these Ss were obtained from

Subjects' descriptions of their own personalities were found to correlate quite well with descriptions contributed by their peers, especially on traits high in social desirability. As would be

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The analysis of natural language trait names and questionnaire scales has suggested that the five factors of Neuroticism, Extroversion, Openness, Agreeable-ness, and Conscientiousness constitute an

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