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A Realistic Approach to Person Perception
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Edited By
David Funder, University of California, Riverside, U.S.A.
Description
Accuracy in judging personality is important in clinical assessment, applied settings, and everyday life. Personality judgments are important
in assessing job candidates, choosing friends, and determining who we can trust and rely on in our personal lives. Thus, the accuracy
of those judgments is important to both individuals and organizations.
In examining personality judgment, this book takes a sweeping
look at the field's history, assumptions, and current research findings. The book explores the construct of traits within the person-situation
debate, defends the human judge in the face of the fundamental attribution error, and discusses research on four categories of moderators
in judgment: the good judge, the judgeable target, the trait being judged, and the information on which the judgment is based.
Spanning
two decades of accuracy research, this book makes clear not only how personality judgment has come to its current standing but also where
it may move in the future.
Audience
Social psychologists and researchers in personality; graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in personality and person perception.
Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Approaching Accuracy:
Curiosity and Its Fulfillment.
What Is Accuracy?
Chapter Organization.
The Importance of Accuracy.
Three Propositions.
Social and Personality Psychology: Separation and Integration.
Renewed Research on Accuracy.
The Agenda of Accuracy Research and Plan for the Book.
The Very Existence of Personality:
Does Personality Exist?
The
Situational Onslaught.
The Response.
Do Personality Traits Explain Anything?
Personality Reaffirmed.
Error and Accuracy in the
Study of Personality Judgment:
Evolution of Research on Accuracy and Error.
Accuracy in Human Social Judgment.
Toward a Rapprochement
between Error and Accuracy.
Methodological and Philosophical Considerations:
The Lessons of Cronbach.
The Criterion
Problem.
Interjudge Agreement.
Behavioral Prediction.
General Issues of Design and Analysis.
Conclusion.
The Process of Accurate
Personality Judgment:
The Realistic Accuracy model.
The Structure of RAM.
Implications of the Realistic Accuracy Model.
The
Four Steps to Accurate Personality Judgment.
Multiple Cues and Multiple Traits.
The Goals of RAM.
Moderators of Accuracy:
The Good Judge.
The Good Target.
The Good Trait.
Good Information.
Interactions among Moderators.
Conclusion.
Self-Knowledge:
Self-Perception versus Other-Perception.
Application of RAM to Self-Judgment.
Prospects for Improving Accuracy:
Relevance.
Availability.
Detection.
Utilization.
The Judge's Situation.
References.
Index.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 238 pages, publication date: JUL-1999
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-269930-6
ISBN-10: 0-12-269930-0
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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