Thinking about ourselves and others: Self-monitoring and social knowledge

124 undergraduates were administered the Self-Monitoring Scale and asked to respond to personality traits for themselves or another person. Ss with high self-monitoring scores were particularly skilled at constructing informative images of individuals who were prototypic examples of each of a variety of trait domains; low self-monitoring Ss were particularly skilled at constructing informative images of their characteristic selves in each trait domain. (22 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).