Journal article
Do People Know What They're Like in the Moment?
Jessie Sun, Simine Vazire
Psychological Science | SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC | Published : 2019
Abstract
Knowing yourself requires knowing not only what you are like in general (trait self-knowledge) but also how your personality fluctuates from moment to moment (state self-knowledge). We examined this latter form of self-knowledge. Participants (248 people; 2,938 observations) wore the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR), an unobtrusive audio recorder, and completed experience-sampling self-reports of their personality states four times each day for 1 week. We estimated state self-knowledge by comparing self-reported personality states with consensual observer ratings of personality states coded from the EAR files, which formed the criterion for what participants were "actually" like in th..
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Awarded by National Science Foundation
Funding Acknowledgements
Data collection was supported by National Science Foundation Grant BCS-1125553 (to S. Vazire).