Dr. Gabriela Hofer - Who knows what we are good at? Unique insights of

Journal article

Gabriela Hofer, Laura Langmann, R. Burkart, A. Neubauer
Journal of Research in Personality, 2021

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Hofer, G., Langmann, L., Burkart, R., & Neubauer, A. (2021). Who knows what we are good at? Unique insights of the self, knowledgeable informants, and strangers into a person’s abilities. Journal of Research in Personality.

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Hofer, Gabriela, Laura Langmann, R. Burkart, and A. Neubauer. “Who Knows What We Are Good at? Unique Insights of the Self, Knowledgeable Informants, and Strangers into a Person’s Abilities.” Journal of Research in Personality (2021).

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Hofer, Gabriela, et al. “Who Knows What We Are Good at? Unique Insights of the Self, Knowledgeable Informants, and Strangers into a Person’s Abilities.” Journal of Research in Personality, 2021.

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@article{gabriela2021a,
  title = {Who knows what we are good at? Unique insights of the self, knowledgeable informants, and strangers into a person’s abilities},
  year = {2021},
  journal = {Journal of Research in Personality},
  author = {Hofer, Gabriela and Langmann, Laura and Burkart, R. and Neubauer, A.}
}

Abstract

Who is the best judge of a person’s abilities—the person, a knowledgeable informant or strangers just met in a 3-min speed date? To test this, we collected ability measures as well as self-, informant- and stranger-estimates of verbal, numerical and spatial intelligence, creativity, and intra- and interpersonal emotional competence from 175 young adults. While people themselves were the most accurate about the majority of their abilities, their verbal and spatial intelligence were only estimable by informants or strangers, respectively. These differences in accuracy were not accompanied by differences in the domains’ relevance to people’s self-worth or observability to strangers. These results indicate self-other knowledge asymmetries for abilities but raise questions about the reasons behind these asymmetries.