This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the study of personality and communicated social competency.

Contents: R. Rosenthal, Foreword. Preface. Part I:Theoretical Issues.F.J. Bernieri, Toward a Taxonomy of Interpersonal Sensitivity. S.H. Losoya, N. Eisenberg, Affective Empathy. Part II:Assessing the Performance of a Perceiver.C.R. Colvin, M.J. Bundick, In Search of the Good Judge of Personality: Some Methodological and Theoretical Concerns. F.J. Bernieri, J.S. Gillis, Judging Rapport: Employing Brunswik's Lens Model to Study Interpersonal Sensitivity. N. Ambady, D. LaPlante, E. Johnson, Thin-Slice Judgments as a Measure of Interpersonal Sensitivity. B.E. Malone, B.M. DePaulo, Measuring Sensitivity to Deception. Part III:Toward the Creation of an Interpersonal Sensitivity Test.R.E. Riggio, H.R. Riggio, Self-Report Measurement of Interpersonal Sensitivity. J.A. Hall, The PONS Test and the Psychometric Approach to Measuring Interpersonal Sensitivity. D. Archer, M. Costanzo, R. Akert, The Interpersonal Perception Task (IPT): Alternative Approaches to Problems of Theory and Design. S. Nowicki, Jr., M.P. Duke, Nonverbal Receptivity: The Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy (DANVA). Part IV:Dyadic Interaction Approaches.S.E. Snodgrass, Correlational Method for Assessing Interpersonal Sensitivity Within Dyadic Interaction. W. Ickes, Measuring Empathic Accuracy. P. Noller, Using Standard Content Methodology to Assess Nonverbal Sensitivity in Dyads. D.A. Kenny, L. Winquist, The Measurement of Interpersonal Sensitivity: Consideration of Design, Components, and Unit of Analysis. Part V:Where Can We Go From Here?R.E. Riggio, Interpersonal Sensitivity Research and Organizational Psychology: Theoretical and Methodological Applications. D.C. Funder, Three Trends in Current Research on Person Perception: Positivity, Realism, and Sophistication. L.A. Zebrowitz, Groping for the Elephant of Interpersonal Sensitivity. H.S. Friedman, Paradoxes of Nonverbal Detection, Expression, and Responding: Points to PONDER.