Implicit and Explicit Personality:

Psychologists have long suspected that people do not have good access to their own thoughts and feelings and that self-exploration is subject to introspective limits. Empirical evidence supports this view. What results is a compelling claim for measurement procedures suitable for the assessment of cognitive processes that remain obscured if people are simply asked to report them. In “Implicit and Explicit Personality: A Test of a Channeling Hypothesis for Aggressive Behavior” The authors proposed that self-beliefs about personality influence the channels through which people express their implicit motives. On the basis of this hypothesis, the authors predicted that self-beliefs about aggressiveness would influence the channels through which people express their aggressive motive and the justification mechanisms they use to defend expression of this motive. For example, the authors predicted that people who were implicitly prepared to rationalize a desire to harm others would engage in overt aggression if they viewed themselves as aggressive or passive aggression if they viewed themselves as nonaggressive. The implicit aspects of aggressiveness were measured via conditional reasoning.
A common person-schema belief that certain personality traits are linked together and may help us make a quick impression of someone, but there is no guarantee that initial impression will be correct. We have different types of schemas for various social situations. We have different types of schemas for various social situations. We have self-schemas, which help us organize our knowledge about our own traits and personal qualities. Person schemes help us organize people’s characteristics and store them in our memory. People often have a theory known as implicit personality which lets us know what kind of personality traits go together.
The fact that obtaining self-reported data is so popular makes complete sense. If I want to learn more about somebody, why would I not go directly