Group personality judgments at zero acquaintance: Communication among judges versus aggregation of independent evaluations

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 385-389

  Beer, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Aggregation; Consensus; Personality assessment; Reliability; Validity; Zero acquaintance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876496443     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.03.008     Document Type: Article

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