Jennifer S. McDonald

• PhD Experimental Psychology
• Lecturer (Associate) at Idaho State University

Personality judgment research typically focuses on traits, and visibility of traits often predicts judgmental accuracy. However, visibility and accuracy of values are not well-explored. It was predicted that visibility and accuracy would be positively related, and values would be judged more accurately than traits. In groups of 3 acquaintances, 204...

Psychology has long traditions of measuring the accuracy of judging personality and the accuracy of judging emotional states, but little theoretical progress has been made to connect these two processes that are so important in daily life. The State and Trait Accuracy Model (STAM) was designed to describe how accurate judgments of affective states...

Information quantity is an important moderator of personality judgment accuracy. Some evidence suggests that the amount of available information is positively related to accuracy. The current study utilized the social accuracy model to investigate the effects of differences in thin slices of information quantity on the distinctive accuracy and norm...

Many have argued that self-care should play a critical role in graduate training in professional psychology (Bamonti et al., 2014; Barnett & Cooper, 2009; Elman & Forrest, 2007; Norcross & Guy, 2007); however, the existing research on the effectiveness of self-care activities for graduate students has produced somewhat mixed results. The purpose of...