Discrepancies between Self- and Observer-Inferences about Implicit Dispositions from Nonverbal

inferences as a basis for more general trait inferences. We conclude that people have a Key words: self-perception; self-knowledge; implicit personality traits; trait inferences; n There will always be others who know more sports facts, bird species or cooking recipes than we do. We bear it. But the one thing most of us really cannot stand about friends, partners or (m)others are situations in which they claim to know us better than we do. After all, we are supposed to be the experts on ourselves: All of us have spent—and kee