Riverside Accuracy Project

An undergraduate research assistant coding behavioral data

In an effort to address the main questions and issues involved in the area of person perception, a great amount of data was collected over two years. The Riverside Accuracy Project data set consists of three distinct forms of data: (1) Pencil and paper measures completed by subjects and informants; (2) Videotaped in-lab behavioral interactions; (3) Experience sampling and daily diary data ("beeper" and "diary" data).

TIME 1

- Participants interacted with one other previously unknown participant in three videotaped interactions (an unstructured situation, a cooperative situation, and a competitive situation).

- Participants completed (1) a personality measure (Q-Set Rating - a Likert scale version of the California Q-Sort) of the interaction partner, and (2) a questionnaire about the interaction.

TIME 2

- Participants completed several personality measures about themselves.

TIME 3

- Participants recruited an acquaintance to come to the lab to (1) participate in the series of three vidoetaped behavioral interactions with the target participant, and (2) complete a Q-Set Rating of the target subject, a questionnaire about the interaction, and a relationship closeness inventory

- In addition to the videotaped interactions, participants completed a Q-Set Rating of their acquaintance, the questionnaire about the interaction, and a relationship closeness inventory.

TIME 4

- Participants completed several more personality inventories about themselves.

TIME 5

- Participants were engaged in a videotaped group interaction with other previoulsy unkown participants.

TIME 6

- Target participants recruited two acquaintances (one of whom was had participated in the videotaped interaction at time 3) to (1) complete a California Q-Sort on the target (2) watch a videotaped interaction of a stranger (another target participant) and complete a Q-Sort of that target.

TIME 7

- The two acquaintances returned and completed the NEO-PI on the target participant and several personality measures about themselves.

TIME 8

- Parents and two hometown friends of the participants completed the NEO-PI on the participant.

TIME 9

- For seven days, subjects completed a mood questionnaire at the end of every day.

TIME 10

- For eight days, particpants carried a beeper and were beeped four times a day. When beeped, subjects completed a mood and activity questionnaire.

• California Q-Sort (Block, 1978)
• NEO Personality Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1985)
• Social Skills Inventory (Riggio, 1986)
• Pennebaker Inventory of Limbic Languidness (Pennebaker, 1982)
• Positive Affect Negative Affect Scale (Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1988)
• Self-Consciousness Scale (Fenigstein, Scheier, & Buss, 1975)
• Davis Empathy Scale (Davis, 1980)
• Ego Resiliency Scale (Block, unpublished)
• Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (Coopersmith, 1967)
• Rosenberg Self-Esteem Inventory (Rosenberg, 1989)
• Self-Monitoring Scale (Snyder & Gangestad, 1986)
• Self-Disclosure Scale
• Satisfaction with Life Scale
• Beck Depresiion Inventory (Beck, Ward, Mendelsohn, Mock, & Erbaugh, 1961)
• Fordyce Happiness Scale (Fordyce, 1977)
• Opener Scale
• Bohon Self-Esteem Inventory (Bohon, unpublished)
• Academic Self-Handicapping Questionnaire (Murray & Warden, 1992)
• Need for Achievement
• Shipley Intelligence Scale (Shipley, 1940)

• Q-Set Rating on stranger (Time 1 interaction partner)
• Q-Set Rating on acquaintance (Time 3 interaction partner)

• Q-Set Rating by stranger (Time 1 interaction partner)
• Q-Sort by acquaintance (Time 3 interaction partner)
• Q-Sort by stranger (another participant's Time 3 interaction partner)
• NEO-PI by 2 at-school acquaintances
• NEO-PI by parents
• NEO-PI by 2 hometown friends

• Q-Sort
• Davis Empathy Scale
• Ego-Resiliency Scale
• Social Skills Inventory
• Self-Monitoring Scale
• Opener Scale
• Self-Consciousness Scale
• Rosenberg Self-Esteem Inventory
• Shipley Intelligence Scale