From time to time we all wonder what other people think of us. Often in a quiet moment, just before going to sleep, while reviewing the day, we try to work out how friends and family might interpret what we’ve said and done.
How neurotic does my partner think I am? Do my colleagues think of me as a reliable, hard worker? Do my friends think I’m stuck in a rut or open to new experiences?
Here on the inside we have a model of ourselves that makes sense, but out there, what conclusions are those who know us best drawing about our personalities?
Of course we all differ and you might imagine that the differences between actor and observer would cancel out. For example some people might appear more conscientious than they are, and others less so.
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* People were rated as “less open to experience”, including to fantasy, new ideas and values, than they thought of themselves.
*..people all around world share this same tendency to see themselves as more neurotic and self-conscious and “less open to experience” than they are rated by friends and family.
SURELY THE ABOVE SHOULD READ:
“MORE open to experience”…
otherwise the first quote and the second are contradictory.