PERSONALITY INFLUENCES ON CONFIDENCE TEST SCORES

From the earliest years in the development of confidence testing, several authors have expressed the concern that confidence test scores were influenced, to a measurable degree, by personality variables. Advocates of confidence testing have claimed that the effects of personality variables can be reduced with practice. This study attempts to evaluate the association of personality variables with confidence test scores in light of practice. It was concluded that although significant correlations between personality variables and confidence testing scores could be obtained, these correlations did not hold up with replication.