Psychology
8 years ago

Strangers surprisingly accurate at rating personalities, study reveals.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
On the accuracy of ratings of personality by strangers.
Sampo V. Paunonen

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The article explores why strangers can accurately rate a person's personality traits. Factors like how likable someone seems, common behaviors based on gender, and subtle cues in a stranger's judgment all play a role. A computer simulation showed that even a few accurate judgments among many random ones can lead to high overall correlations between self-ratings and stranger ratings. This study sheds light on why strangers can sometimes guess a person's personality traits accurately.