An experimental examination of the "good judge"

作者：McLarney Vesotski Amber^*; Bernieri Frank; Rempala Daniel

来源：Journal of Research in Personality, 2011, 45(4): 398-400.

DOI：10.1016/j.jrp.2011.04.005

• Good judge
• Traits
• Impression formation

Many personality traits have been proposed to predict a person's ability to judge another. The predictive abilities found for these traits have been inconsistent. Funder and others (e.g., Gilbert, 1989; Trope, 1986) suggested that social knowledge, motivation to read others, and the ability to multitask are essential components of accurate judgment. In this study, we manipulated participants to be high or low in each of these characteristics and examined the impact of these manipulations on IPT-15 performance. As predicted, participants manipulated to be high in social knowledge, motivation to read others, and multitasking showed superior performance on the IPT-15 compared to participants in the corresponding low conditions. These results support Funder's "good judge" construct as a predictor of judgmental accuracy.

• 出版日期2011-8