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SUMMARY:Do romantic partners or friends have similar personality after all
 ? - Youyou Wu\, The Psychometrics Centre\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20151110T163000Z
DTEND:20151110T173000Z
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CONTACT:Youyou Wu
DESCRIPTION:Friends and spouses tend to be similar in a broad range of cha
 racteristics (i.e. homophily)\, such as age\, educational level\, attitude
 s\, values\, and general intelligence. Surprisingly\, little evidence has 
 been found for similarity in personality—one of the most fundamental psy
 chological constructs. We argue that the lack of evidence for personality 
 homophily derives from the tendency of individuals to make personality jud
 gments in relation to a salient comparison group rather than in absolute t
 erms when responding to the self-report and peer-report questionnaires com
 monly used in personality research (i.e. reference-group effect). We addre
 ss this limitation by employing personality measures based on behavior and
  language that are resistant to this bias. Results provide evidence for a 
 strong personality homophily between romantic partners and between friends
 . This finding highlights the limitations pertinent to traditional questio
 nnaire measure. 
LOCATION:Room KH107\, Judge Business School\, Trumpington St.\, Cambridge
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