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Students' acceptance of high and low generalized personality interpretations
Author(s) -
Greene Roger L.,
Baucom Donald H.,
Macon R. Scott
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198001)36:1<166::aid-jclp2270360118>3.0.co;2-#
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , clinical psychology , social psychology
Assessed students' ability to discriminate between two generalized personality interpretations, which varied in their base rate accuracy within a student sample in two experiments. In Experiment 1, students ( N = 40) correctly recognized that the two generalized personality interpretations differed in their base rate accuracy and that neither interpretation described the students as unique individuals. In Experiment 2, ( N = 18) these results were replicated for two generalized personality interpretations, which also had been matched for social desirability.