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One of the standard ways of studying personality is through the self-concept, or at least that aspect of it which the subject is willing to reveal in self-evaluations. Recently, the self-rated questionnaire has fallen into disrepute in some circles; it has been argued that most people are so self-deceptive, or so defensive about admitting many of the truths they know about themselves, that self-evaluation can be used only indirectly and cannot be taken at face value.
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Holt, R.R. (1978). The Accuracy of Self-Evaluations: Its Measurement and Some of Its Personological Correlates. In: Projective Assessment. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2391-4_14
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