Evidence of Differential Meta-Accuracy: People Understand the Different Impressions They Make
Evidence of Differential Meta-Accuracy: People Understand the Different Impressions They Make
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02409.x
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发表时间：
2009-08-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Furr, R. Michael
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作者：
Carlson, Erika N.;Furr, R. Michael
本文重新审视了流行的结论，即人们没有意识到他们所做的不同印象，或者他们的差异元准确性很差。这一结论来自于采用上下文无差异设计的研究，这些设计可能限制了实际印象的差异，从而限制了参与者展示差异元准确性的能力。我们认为，一种替代的，上下文差异化的方法可能会揭示差异元准确性的证据，因为（a）人们在不同的社会背景下倾向于表现不同，（B）来自不同社会背景的互动伙伴目睹不同的行为，并形成对目标人物的不同印象，（c）用于推断一个人对他人的印象的上下文信息在不同的上下文中相对不同，从而导致元感知的差异化。我们评估了不同社会背景下的元准确性差异（即，他们发现，与研究人员的普遍结论相反，人们确实可以察觉到他们对他人的相对印象。
This article reexamines the prevailing conclusion that people are unaware of the different impressions they make, or that their differential meta-accuracy is poor. This conclusion emerged from research employing contextually undifferentiated designs that may have constrained differences in actual impressions, thereby limiting participants' ability to demonstrate differential meta-accuracy. We argue that an alternative, contextually differentiated approach may reveal evidence for differential meta-accuracy because (a) people tend to behave differently in different social contexts, (b) interaction partners from different social contexts witness differing behaviors and form differing impressions of a target person, and (c) contextual information used to infer the impression one makes on others is relatively differentiated across contexts, resulting in differentiated metaperceptions. We assessed differential meta-accuracy across social contexts (i.e., parents, hometown friends, and college friends) and found that, in contrast to researchers' prevailing conclusion, people can indeed detect the relative impressions they make on others.