personality judgment

Item features affect how well people can predict self-reported personality traces of strangers

Previous work suggests that self–other agreement in personality judgment is lower for evaluative than for neutral items. We tested whether this pattern generalizes to judgments collected with Who Knows, a mobile app in which users watch brief video …

Intuitive judgments of strangers are more popular but not more accurate than deliberate ones

Popular advice in media and self-help literature encourages people to trust their intuition when forming impressions of strangers. We tested this widespread lay belief by examining whether intuitive judgments are preferred over deliberate ones and …

A large-scale, gamified online assessment of first impressions: The Who Knows project

Interpersonal judgments play a central role in human social interactions, influencing decisions ranging from friendships to presidential elections. Despite extensive research on the accuracy of these judgments, an overreliance on broad personality …