When meeting people for the first time, we often strive to perceive others and express our own personalities accurately. Does this benefit social connection by promoting greater perceiver liking of targets, or might it instead hinder liking for some targets and in some contexts? In the present studies, we examined whether the links between accuracy and perceiver liking differ as a function of target self-esteem across two first impression contexts: a speed-dating context (N = 378, N = 4,797 dyads) and a platonic getting-acquainted context (exploratory sample: N = 557, N = 2,924 dyads; preregistered direct replication sample: N = 306, N = 1,683 dyads). In all samples and contexts, target self-esteem significantly moderated the association between accuracy and perceiver liking, such that accuracy was either positively related (platonic context) or unrelated (romantic context) to perceiver liking when targets were higher in self-esteem, yet accuracy was negatively related to perceiver liking when targets were lower in self-esteem, regardless of context. In sum, being seen accurately may have negative social implications for some targets and, especially, in higher stakes getting-acquainted contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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喜欢你自己，其他人也会效仿：目标自尊在被准确看到与在柏拉图式和浪漫的第一印象中被喜欢之间的关联中的作用。


第一次见面时，我们往往会努力感知他人并准确表达自己的个性。这是否通过促进对目标的更大感知点赞来有利于社会联系，还是会阻碍某些目标和某些情况下的点赞？在本研究中，我们研究了准确性和感知者喜好之间的联系是否在两个第一印象情境中作为目标自尊的函数而变化：快速约会情境（N = 378，N = 4,797 个二元组）和柏拉图式的熟识情境（探索性样本：N = 557，N = 2,924 个二元组;预先注册的直接复制样本：N = 306，N = 1,683 个二元组）。在所有样本和上下文中，目标自尊显着调节了准确性和感知者喜欢之间的关联，因此，当目标的自尊心较高时，准确性与感知者的喜好呈正相关（柏拉图式的语境）或无关（浪漫的语境），而当目标的自尊心较低时，准确性与感知者的喜好呈负相关，无论上下文如何。总而言之，被准确看到可能会对某些目标产生负面的社会影响，尤其是在高风险的熟识环境中。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。