{"id":69009,"date":"2018-03-12T12:21:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T16:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69009"},"modified":"2018-03-12T05:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T09:52:32","slug":"atlantic-people-dont-actually-know-themselves-very-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69009","title":{"rendered":"(Atlantic) People Don’t Actually Know Themselves Very Well"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sixteen rigorous\u00a0studies<\/a>\u00a0of thousands of people at work have shown that people\u2019s coworkers are better than they are at recognizing how their personality will affect their job performance. As a social scientist, if I want to get a read on your personality, I could ask you to fill out a survey on how stable, dependable, friendly, outgoing, and curious you are. But I would be much better off asking your coworkers to rate you on those same traits: They\u2019re often more than twice as accurate. They can see things that you can\u2019t or won\u2019t\u2014and these studies reveal that whatever you know about yourself that your coworkers don\u2019t is basically irrelevant to your job performance.<\/p>\n

Humans\u2019 blind spots are predictable: There are certain types of traits where people can\u2019t see themselves clearly, but others where they can. The psychologist Simine Vazire\u00a0asked<\/a>\u00a0people to rate themselves and four friends on a bunch of traits, ranging from emotional stability and intelligence to creativity and assertiveness. Then, to see if they had predicted their own personalities better than their friends had, they took a bunch of tests that measured these traits.<\/p>\n

The good news: You have some unique insight into your emotional stability. In the study, people outperformed their friends at predicting how anxious they\u2019d look and sound when giving a speech about how they felt about their bodies. But they did no better than their friends (or than strangers who had met them just eight minutes earlier) at forecasting how assertive they\u2019d be in a group discussion. And when they tried to predict their performance on an IQ test and a creativity test, they were less accurate than their friends.<\/p>\n

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Sixteen rigorous\u00a0studies\u00a0of thousands of people at work have shown that people\u2019s coworkers are better than they are at recognizing how their personality will affect their job performance. As a social scientist, if I want to get a read on your…<\/span><\/p>\n

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