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Dispositional Traits versus the Content of Experience: Actor/Observer Differences in Judgments of the "Authentic Self."
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Johnson, Joel T.; Boyd, Kenneth R. – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1995
Investigated whether actors and observers differ in their beliefs about what features of an individual best reflect his/her "authentic self." Results indicate that actors' views differed significantly from observers'. Friend raters believed that their friends' dispositional traits were better indicators than what their friends actually did,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Evaluative Thinking, Patterned Responses