"Are We Talking About the Same Person Here?": Interrater Agreement in Judgments of Personality Varies Dramatically With How Much the Perceivers Like the Targets

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 468-474

  Leising, Daniel ^a   Ostrovski, Olga ^a   Zimmermann, Johannes ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

agreement; distinctive; liking; normative; profile

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878517240     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612462414     Document Type: Article

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