Journal
COGNITIVE RESEARCH-PRINCIPLES AND IMPLICATIONS
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1186/s41235-019-0183-2
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Cognition and its Disorders [CE110001021]
- ARC [DP130102300, DP170104602]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
A common goal in psychological research is the measurement of subjective impressions, such as first impressions of faces. These impressions are commonly measured using Likert ratings. Although these ratings are simple to administer, they are associated with response issues that can limit reliability. Here we examine best-worst scaling (BWS), a forced-choice method, as a potential alternative to Likert ratings for measuring participants' facial first impressions. We find that at the group level, BWS scores correlated almost perfectly with Likert scores, indicating that the two methods measure the same impressions. However, at the individual participant level BWS outperforms Likert ratings, both in terms of ability to predict preferences in a third task, and in terms of test-retest reliability. These benefits highlight the power of BWS, particularly for use in individual differences research.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available