Are you a good judge of character?
Daily prompt usually ask psychological questions. I’m not a psychologist / psychiatrist but I can think about someone’s character, the way someone’s walk, how they talk, their family and culture.
Sometimes I read psychology books. Judging is not easy (for me), I’m only reading and observing someone’s behaviour. People have their untold stories that I feel heavy to judge who they really are. Even if I know how they are, I still need to carefully watch my mouth and action.
I can’t talk about this type of topic without a knowledge base cause I’m not a professional here, hence I usually provide the source in my post. Plus I seldom think about people, I prefer playing with cats or watching tree and sky. I have a wonderful conversation with clouds in the sky ☁️☁️💨💭
Are you judging me now?
Some people judge or constantly criticising to feel superior, envy or jealousy. They put you down to feel better about themselves. They’re judgemental towards you. People can be so unaware of what they’re doing to someone as abusive by constantly putting you down, judging you badly, controlling, assaulting, degrading, everything about you is always wrong in their eyes. If you let them know how you feel, they could be in denial or mad, you better stay away from them.
Definition
The word judge itself has different meaning, it depends on your intention. In clinical psychology, the word judge is used to determine you, personality, normal and abnormality, the behaviour, patients’ mental mechanism, etc. Judging will be done with method and standard. There’s also judge in law, it means an official with the authority and responsibility to preside in a court, try lawsuits and make legal rulings.
The Method
An emphasis on inner subjective life, the intrapsychic factor of the psychoanalytic approach to therapy, has been studied in terms of unconscious dynamic conflicts and wish-fulfilling fantasies. Shevrin and his associates (Shevrin, Bond, Brakel, Hertel, & Williams, 1996) have for decades collected data showing that unconscious conflicts have unique effects on individuals. Their method has involved a rigorous combination
of psychoanalytic assessment and modern electrophysiological measurement. Each person seeking treatment at the clinic associated with Shevrin’s laboratory underwent a thorough psychodynamic evaluation (three clinical interviews, the WAIS-R, the Rorschach, and the TAT). Clinical judges studied the material, inferred the person’s conscious description of relevant symptomatology, and specified the unconscious conflict presumably underlying it. Based on these formulations, the judges selected words that reflected, respectively, the patients’ conscious experience of their symptoms and the unconscious conflicts from which they were assumed to derive. These words were then presented both subliminally and supraliminally to the patients while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from their brains. To control for affective valence of the words, pleasant and unpleasant words not chosen by the judges were also shown.
The Accuracy
The accuracy of personality judgement touches on many areas of life. Accurate personality judgment is important to a large segment of applied psychology as well. For example, consider the long-term consequences of traumatic events. It has been suggested that sexually abused children grow up with lowered self-esteem, an impaired sense of control and competence, and an increase in negative emotions (Trickett & Putnam, 1993).
The human judge has long been an important data-gathering tool for personality, developmental, and clinical psychology (Funder, 1993a). In the typical application, a judge becomes acquainted with a subject, watches a subject’s behavior, or peruses a file of information and then renders judgments of various personality attributes.
The accuracy of personality judgment is directly relevant to some age-old philosophical issues and to the ordinary curiosity most people have about each other. Although neither of these concerns may be directly practical, both have proven to be powerful motivators to human thought over the years.
The social psychological study of person perception has been undergirded by constructivist assumptions from its early days. It has concentrated on how person perceptions are cognitively constructed and socially influenced and has largely ignored the relationship, if any between social perceptions and social reality. This
tendency was evidenced in one of the earliest books ever published that collected research on person perception (Tagiuri & Petrullo, 1958). It drew heated complaint from Allport who feared—correctly as it turned out—that this approach would inhibit the study of the accuracy of personality judgment, as the study of person perception nearly became permanently estranged from the study of persons (Allport, 1958, 1966). One of Allport’s prescient remarks on this point is worth quoting in full:
Skepticism [about personality] is likewise reflected in many investigations of ‘‘person perception.’’ To try to discover the traits residing within a personality is regarded as either naïve or impossible. Studies, therefore, concentrate only on the process of perceiving or judging, and reject the problem of validating the perception and judgment (Allport, 1966, p. 2, emphasis in the original).
You can read more information from the source below
Sources:
Allport, G.W. (1958). What units shall we employ? In G. Lindzey (Ed.), Assessment of human motives (pp. 239–260). New York: Rinehart.
Allport, G.W. (1966). Traits revisited. American Psychologist, 21, 1–10.
Funder, D. C. (1999). Personality Judgment: A Realistic Approach to Person Perception. Massachusetts: Academic Press.
Funder, D. C. (1993a). Judgments as data for personality and developmental psychology: Error versus accuracy. In D. C. Funder, R. D. Parke, C. Tomlison-Keasey, & K.Widaman (Eds.), Studying lives through time: Personality and development (pp. 121–146). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Shevrin, H., Bond, J. A., Brakel, L. A., Hertel, R. K., & Williams, W. J. (1996). Conscious and unconscious process. New York: Guilford Press.
Stricker, G., & Widiger, T. A. (2003). Handbook of Psychology Volume 8: Clinical Psychology. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Tagiuri, R., & Petrullo, L. (Eds.) (1958). Person perception and interpersonal behavior. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
Trickett, P. K., & Putnam, F. W. (1993). Impact of child sexual abuse on females: Toward a developmental, psychobiological integration. Psychological Science, 4, 81–87.
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