"Judgable" People: Personality, Behavior, and Competing Explanations

Abstract

"Judgability" discriminates people who are open and knowable from those who are closed and enigmatic. The current study investigated this individual difference characteristic and its personality and behavioral correlates. Subjects (N = 164) were videotaped interacting with a partner of the opposite sex. They completed several personality measures, and each subject was described by 2 friends. Three indices-subject-peer agreement, peer-peer agreement, and peer-behavior agreement-formed a reliable composite index of judgability. The correlates of judgability included extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and, more generally, psychological adjustment.