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Person Perception and Personality Pathology

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: Studies of person perception (people's impressions and beliefs about others) have developed important concepts and methods that can be used to help improve the assessment of personality disorders. They may also inspire advances in our knowledge of the nature and origins of these conditions. Information collected from peers and other types of informants is reliable and provides a perspective that often differs substantially from that obtained using questionnaires and interviews. For some purposes, this information is quite useful. Much remains to be learned about the incremental validity (and potential biases) associated with data from various kinds of informants.

Source: Current Directions in Psychological Science

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01601.x

Authors: Thomas F. Oltmanns, Eric Turkheimer

Institutions: Washington University in St. Louis, University of Virginia

Language: English

Topic: Personality Disorders and Psychopathology

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of Mental Health

Awards: Personality, Health, and Transitions in Later Life, Peer Assessment of Personality Traits and Pathology