Riverside Accuracy Project II

'Dedicated to Accurate Judgment'

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Brief Overview

 

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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