Is it all in the eye of the beholder? Examining the affective consequences of direct and indirect measures of counterdispositional extraversion Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Although research on counterdispositional behavior—or behavior that diverges from one’s dispositions—is becoming increasingly popular, findings on its affective consequences are mixed. In the current study we try to explain those inconsistencies by comparing two existing indirect measures of counterdispositional extraversion (one relative to the trait level and one relative to the average state level), while also introducing a novel, direct measure in which people directly rate the extent to which feel they behave differently than they typically do. We collected a large ESM dataset from 187 ...