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Hypothesis: Participants will project their beliefs about how their own personality traits covary onto other persons. They would assume that if their own traits—say creativity and extraversion—were positively correlated, then they would project that same correlation onto the social targets.

Research Method: College freshmen rated both themselves and their roommates on 11 personality traits and also reported their beliefs about how likely it was that, if a person possessed one trait, that that person also possessed the other.

Results: The results confirmed the hypothesis: Participants’ implicit personality theories predicted their assessment of the qualities of their roommates.

Conclusion: People use their beliefs about their own personalities as anchors from which to understand or predict the personalities of others.

Source: Adapted from Critcher, C. R., & Dunning, D. (2009). Egocentric pattern projection: How implicit personality theories recapitulate the geography of the self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 1–16.

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: When an initially inaccurate expectation leads to behaviors that cause that expectation to come true