JUDGABLE PEOPLE - PERSONALITY, BEHAVIOR, AND COMPETING EXPLANATIONS

''Judgability'' discriminates people who are open and knowable from th ose who are closed and enigmatic. The current study investigated this individual difference characteristic and its personality and behaviora l correlates. Subjects (N = 164) were videotaped interacting with a pa rtner of the opposite sex. They completed several personality measures , and each subject was described by 2 friends. Three indices-subject-p eer agreement, peer-peer agreement, and peer-behavior agreement-formed a reliable composite index of judgability. The correlates of judgabil ity included extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and, more generally, psychological adjustment.