ABSTRACT
T he study of accuracy and bias in social judgment and person perception has had a long and tumultuous history in the psychological sciences. Research examining accuracy in personality judgments was alive and well from the 1920s to the 1950s. The publication of a devastating methodological critique by Cronbach (1955), however, brought this area of research to an abrupt halt. In the aftermath of Cronbach's seminal article, research on social judgment and person perception within social psychology shifted to discerning how social perception processes operate, accompanied by a sublime indifference to the validity or truth of associated lay judgments (Funder, 1995).
