Determinants of consensus in person judgments: The joint influence of information overlap, information quantity, cross-situational consistency, and shared meaning.

This study investigated the effects and interplay of several core determinants of consensus in person perception: information overlap, information quantity, cross-situational consistency, and shared meaning. Targets ( = 200) were filmed in different standardized situations. Perceivers either watched the same target in different situations ( = 1,395 perceivers) or different targets in the same situation ( = 3,963 perceivers) and then rated the targets' personalities after each video.

Differential associations of knowing and liking with accuracy and positivity bias in person perception.

A great range of person perception phenomena may be conceptualized in terms of how much perceivers know about the targets, how much they like the targets, and how these factors relate to the extent to which target descriptions reflect actual target characteristics and/or evaluative bias. We present a comprehensive empirical analysis of this interplay in two studies, the second (targets: = 189, informants: = 1352) being a preregistered replication of the first (targets: = 73, informants: = 549). Using multilevel profile analyses, we investigated how liking and knowing are differentially associated with judgments' normative accuracy (i.