Describe the exercise. Explain what psychological phenomenon the exercise is meant to illuminate. Would you expect more personality traits to be flagged
"Depends on the situation" when filling out the screen for your own personality traits or your friend's personality traits? Why?
Answer:
The exercise asked me to fill out a short personality assessment for myself and one for a friend. There are about a dozen traits, with an opportunity to select, e.g., "shy," "outgoing" or "Depends on the situation". So after I filled out both of these short personality measures, the exercise told me how many times I gave myself a "depends on the situation" and how many times I gave my friend a "depends on the situation." I gave my friend more of those than myself! The idea is that I would be apt to give myself more "depends on the situation" because, according the actor/observer effect, I will think of myself as behaving based on whatever situation I'm in, whereas I will think of my friend as operating from her traits (disposition). Therefore, I should give a friend fewer "Depends on the situation" than I give myself.
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