Informant reports: A cheap, fast, and easy method for personality assessment

By Simine Vazire. 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Portrait of a narcissist: Manifestations of narcissism in physical appearance ☆ (2008, methodology): “Informant-ratings were collected via the Internet following recommendations by Vazire (2006).”
Introducing the Short Dark Triad (SD3) (2014, methodology): “When successful, the method demonstrates agreement between self-perceptions and social consensus regarding the personality of a set of targets (Vazire, 2006).”
Humility: Review of measurement strategies and conceptualization as personality judgment (2010, background): “However, Vazire (2006) recently challenged some common misconceptions regarding the use of informants.”
Computational methods in authorship attribution (2009, neutral): “An accuracy rate of 65.7% in detecting neuroticism is surprisingly high; independent studies of individuals who attempted to guess others' neuroticism levels have given an average accuracy of 69% --even among people who have known each other for several years (Vazire, 2006).”
Personality and Legislative Politics: The Big Five Trait Dimensions Among U.S. State Legislators (2012, background): “As one example, Vazire (2006) shows that 98% of the personality studies published in the Journal of Research in Personality in 2003 utilized self-report measures, of which 70% used only self-report measures.”
Preliminary evidence of diurnal rhythms in everyday behaviors associated with positive affect (2008, methodology): “We also obtained BFI ratings of each Sample 2 participant from three informants who knew the participant well ( Vazire, 2006 ).”
An other perspective on personality: meta-analytic integration of observers' accuracy and predictive validity. (2010, background): “Despite the urging of some (e.g., Funder, 1999; Klonsky, Oltmanns, & Turkheimer, 2002; Vazire, 2006), fields outside of personality or social psychology rarely collect personality measures from informants who have observed targets (“other-raters,” e.”
Automatic personality assessment through social media language. (2015, background): “…lower than the self-informant correlations typically found in studies using informant reports (self-informant agreement r s often range from .40 to .60; e .g., Vazire, 2006; Watson, Hub-bard, & Wiese, 2000), suggesting that LBAs predict self-reports slightly worse than well-acquainted informants.”
Post–traumatic Growth as Positive Personality Change: Evidence, Controversies and Future Directions (2014, background): “with which informant reports can be collected (Vazire, 2006).”
Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move beyond the Big Few Traits (2020, background): “Combining multiple raters can reduce systematic idiosyncrasies inherent in only one ratings source (McCrae, Mõttus, Hřebíčková, Realo, & Allik, 2019; Vazire, 2006); indeed, such method‐specific effects may make up a large proportion of observed variance (McCrae, 2015).”
Facing a psychopath: Detecting the dark triad from emotionally-neutral faces, using prototypes from the Personality Faceaurus (2011, background): “Measuring personality in part by using peer reports has increasingly become the standard in psychology (Vazire, 2006), especially because peers have better insight into certain traits than the self does (Vazire, 2010).”
Measuring Personality Constructs: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Self-Reports, Informant Reports and Behavioural Assessments (2008, methodology): “According to an analysis conducted by Vazire (2006), 98% of the studies assessing personality traits published in the”
Longitudinal Experience–Wide Association Studies—A Framework for Studying Personality Change (2020, neutral): “34: 285–300 (2020) DOI: 10.1002/per Oltmanns, 2019; Vazire, 2006), interaction partner reported behaviour (Geukes et al., 2019), digital footprints of behaviour (Adjerid & Kelley, 2018; Bleidorn & Hopwood, 2019; Kosinski, Matz, Gosling, Popov, & Stillwell, 2015), mobile sensing of behaviour and…”
Validating a brief measure of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (2013, methodology): “While researchers have called for the use of informant reports (see Vazire, 2006 for review), the study of time perspective is relatively weak in this respect.”
Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks: Self-Reported Facebook-Related Behaviors and Observable Profile Information (2011, neutral): “28 31 Therefore, an accuracy criterion was created by combining self-reports and reports from four well-acquainted informants.”
Self-Knowledge of Personality: Do People Know Themselves? (2010, background): “Thus, because it is safe to assume that the vast majority of the studies on which these reviews are based measured personality using self-reports (Vazire, 2006), the findings provide some evidence for the validity of people’s self-perceptions of their personality.”
Personality Traits and Relationship Satisfaction in Intimate Couples: Three Perspectives on Personality (2014, background): “…of the three perspectives Previous research found substantial associations between self- and other-reports of personality traits (self-other agreement; cf. Back & Vazire, 2012) with correlations ranging from .40 to .60 (Vazire, 2006; Vazire & Carlson, 2010; Watson, Hubbard, & Wiese, 2000b).”
Self-presentation style in job interviews: the role of personality and culture (2013, background): “Expert-coded self-promotion and ingratiation Although self-reports have their place, research is accumulating on the value of observer ratings (Connelly & Ones, 2010; Oh, Wang, & Mount, 2011; Vazire, 2006).”