Abstract
People possess idiosyncratic, self-serving definitions of traits and abilities. This observation was supported by 6 studies in which people articulated the performances along behavioral criteria (e.g., math Scholastic Achievement Test score) necessary to qualify for relevant traits (e.g., math ability) or made judgments about performances attained by other people. When making judgments of others, high-performing Ss tended to rate target performances less favorably than did low-performing Ss, with these disagreements most pronouced when the target's performance was low
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PsychologySocial psychologySocial perceptionCognitive psychologyBig Five personality traitsDevelopmental psychologyPerceptionPersonality
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- 1992
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- 63
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- 3
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- 341-355
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- 197
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David Dunning,
Geoffrey L. Cohen
(1992).
Egocentric definitions of traits and abilities in social judgment..
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
, 63
(3)
, 341-355.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.63.3.341
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- 10.1037/0022-3514.63.3.341