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The Riverside Behavioral Q‐sort: A Tool for the Description of Social Behavior
Author(s) -
Funder David C.,
Furr R. Michael,
Colvin C. Randall
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6494.00103
Subject(s) - psychology , sort , flexibility (engineering) , personality , social psychology , variety (cybernetics) , reliability (semiconductor) , behavioral modeling , cognitive psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , power (physics) , statistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , information retrieval
The Riverside Behavioral Q‐sort (RBQ) is a flexible technique for gathering a wide‐ranging description of the behavior of individuals in dyadic social interaction. Ratings of RBQ items can attain adequate reliability to reflect behavioral effects of experimental manipulations and to manifest meaningful correlations with a variety of personality characteristics. The RBQ’s flexibility, validity, and relative ease of use may facilitate the more frequent inclusion of behavioral data in personality and social psychology.