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The purpose of the Riverside Accuracy Project is to investigate
the factors that influence the accuracy with which
people make personality judgments of themselves and others.
Theoretically, the Realistic Accuracy Model proposes that
accurate personality judgment requires a four-stage process in
which (1) relevant information is emitted by the target which
(2) becomes available to the judge, who then (3) detects this
information and (4) utilizes it correctly. Failure at any
of these four stages will prevent the attainment of
accuracy. Empirically, four moderator variables make
accuracy more or less likely, including properties of (1) the
judge (e.g., judgmental ability), (2) the target (e.g.,
judgability), (3) the trait being judged (e.g., visibility), and
(4) the information upon which the judgment is based (e.g., its
quantity or quality). The
Project is also using its large data sets to address other
topics including the relationship between normal personality and
personality disorders, connections between personality and
language use, and the psychological assessment of social
situations.
What's
New
We
are pleased to provide three new research resources.
1.
Revised Behavioral Q-sort. The Riverside Behavioral
Q-sort has been revised for more general use, outside of the
laboratory contexts in which it has been employed to date.
2.
Riverside Situational Q-sort. We are in the process
of developing and testing a Q-sort for the psychological
description of situations.
3.
Q-sorter program. We have developed a free,
downloadable program for completing Q-sorts on the computer, thus
making Q-sort descriptions easier to complete and their data entry
more accurate. We also include files including the
behavioral and situational Q-sorts described above, along with the
revised California Q-sort for the description of personality.
If
you are interested, please go to our Qsorter
Page.
Questions?
Comments? Contact us at
rap@ucr.edu
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