Imagine You Have Just Met the Person Who Is Going

question 154

Multiple Choice

Imagine you have just met the person who is going to be your roommate next year.On the basis of what psychologists know about judgments of personality, to whom would you ask questions about what the new roommate is like, and why?

• A)the future roommate, because self-descriptions have been found to be the best predictors of behavior
• B)the future roommate's current close acquaintances, because research has found that people are not always objective about some aspects of their own behavior
• C)other people in your dorm who do not know the person but have observed the future roommate's behavior, because they will be the most objective
• D)no one, because research has found that such descriptions usually cannot predict future behavior

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