Jaksic Cyril, Schlegel Katja
Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Institute for Psychology, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
J Intell. 2020 Sep 18;8(3):34. doi: 10.3390/jintelligence8030034.
The ability to accurately judge others' personality and the ability to accurately recognize others' emotions are both part of the broader construct of interpersonal accuracy (IPA). However, little research has examined the association between these two IPA domains. Little is also known about the relationship between personality judgment accuracy and other socio-emotional skills and traits. In the present study, 121 participants judged eight traits (Big Five, intelligence, cooperativeness, and empathy) in each of 30 targets who were presented either in a photograph, a muted video, or a video with sound. The videos were 30 second excerpts from negotiations that the targets had engaged in. Participants also completed standard tests of emotion recognition ability, emotion understanding, and trait emotional intelligence. Results showed that personality judgment accuracy, when indexed as trait accuracy and distinctive profile accuracy, positively correlated with emotion recognition ability and was unrelated to emotion understanding and trait emotional intelligence. Female participants were more accurate in judging targets' personality than men. These results provide support for IPA as a set of correlated domain-specific skills and encourage further research on personality judgment accuracy as a meaningful individual difference variable.
准确判断他人性格的能力以及准确识别他人情绪的能力，都是更广泛的人际准确性（IPA）概念的一部分。然而，很少有研究考察这两个IPA领域之间的关联。对于性格判断准确性与其他社会情感技能和特质之间的关系，人们也知之甚少。在本研究中，121名参与者对30名目标对象的八项特质（大五人格、智力、合作性和同理心）进行了判断，这些目标对象分别以照片、静音视频或有声视频的形式呈现。视频是目标对象参与的谈判的30秒片段。参与者还完成了情绪识别能力、情绪理解和特质情商的标准测试。结果表明，以特质准确性和独特轮廓准确性为指标的性格判断准确性与情绪识别能力呈正相关，与情绪理解和特质情商无关。女性参与者在判断目标对象的性格方面比男性更准确。这些结果为IPA作为一组相关的特定领域技能提供了支持，并鼓励进一步研究将性格判断准确性作为一个有意义的个体差异变量。
