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Are you a good judge of character
Can you make an accurate judgment of someone's personality based only on your first impression of them
Ironically the answer lies as much in them
As it does in you
One of the first people to try to identify good judges of character was us psychologist henri f atams in nineteen twenty seven
His research led him to conclude that people fell into two groups good judges of themselves and good judges of others
Addss's research has been widely criticcied since then
But he wasn't entily wrong ong their being too didistint types more on that in a moment
But first we need to define what a good judge of character
Is
Is it someone who can read personalizy
Or someone who can read emotion
Those are two distinct skills
Emotions such as anger or joy or sadness
Can generate easily identifiable physical signs
Most of us would probably be able to accurately identify these signs even in a stranger as such most of us are probably good judges of emotion
In order to be a good judge of personality
However there needs to be an interaction with the other person
And that person needs to be a good target
Good targets are people who reveal relevant and useful cues to their personality
So this means the good judge will only manifest when reading good targets
This is according to rogers and abisons in the twenty nineteen
Nineteen journal entitled reassessing the good judge of personality
We found consistent clear and strong evidence
That the good judge does exist rogers and b sts concluded
But their key finding is that the good judge does not have magical gifts of perception
They are simply able to detect and utilize information provided by the good target
So our first impressions really accurate
Well
If you're a good judge talking to a good target
Then it seems the answer is yes
And now we know that good judges probably do exist more research can be done into how they read personality
What kind of people
They are
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