Know Thyself
A psychologist at the University of Washington at St. Louis has shown that we might not know ourselves as well as we think we do. Simine Vazire found that although we are more capable in assessing ourselves in regards to things like internal or neurotic traits, our friends are better tellers of traits such as intelligence and creativity. Vazire even went as far as to say that strangers are just as capable of assessing one's extroversion as our friends and even we are. Vazire said "Personality is not who you think you are, it's who you are." She thinks that just because you get to "write the story" you don't get to dictate your personality, personality is the reality of who you really are. She goes on to explain that everything you do leaves marks of your personality, your clothes, your hair, your Facebook, etc. You give off traits of your personality that you might not even know your self. You leave behind so many clues as to your personality it's difficult not to believe that your friends might know you better than you know yourself.
Vazire developed a model called the self-other knowledge asymmetry (SOKA) model. With it she tested 165 volunteers who were each given a different task. They then took an IQ test, participated in a group discussion without a leader to see who would emerge as a leader, and they took a Trier social stress test, where trained experimenters filmed the volunteers in a small room as they spoke of what they liked and didn't like about their bodies. Every volunteer then grades every other person on their personalities using a 40-trait personality rating form.
Her tests found that people are very inept at telling of their internal personality traits like sadness, fear, etc. The test also found that we have a very hard time judging ourselves in areas that are desirable or undesirable, things like intelligence, humor, and creativity. Vazire thinks these traits are so hard for someone to judge because of the fact that they affect your life so much. You lead an extremely different life based of whether or not you are smart or funny.
This test makes me wonder if people may have extremely warped concepts of who they really are. Could it be possible that I have no concept of many parts of my own personality?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100226093235.htm
Charles Brown
Vazire developed a model called the self-other knowledge asymmetry (SOKA) model. With it she tested 165 volunteers who were each given a different task. They then took an IQ test, participated in a group discussion without a leader to see who would emerge as a leader, and they took a Trier social stress test, where trained experimenters filmed the volunteers in a small room as they spoke of what they liked and didn't like about their bodies. Every volunteer then grades every other person on their personalities using a 40-trait personality rating form.
Her tests found that people are very inept at telling of their internal personality traits like sadness, fear, etc. The test also found that we have a very hard time judging ourselves in areas that are desirable or undesirable, things like intelligence, humor, and creativity. Vazire thinks these traits are so hard for someone to judge because of the fact that they affect your life so much. You lead an extremely different life based of whether or not you are smart or funny.
This test makes me wonder if people may have extremely warped concepts of who they really are. Could it be possible that I have no concept of many parts of my own personality?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100226093235.htm
Charles Brown
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