title: Is consistency a domain-general individual differences characteristic?
abstract: We explored randomness in responding in two ways across six experiments. First, we predicted that people would differ from each other in randomness in a stable way when tested in the same domain across two sessions; people who responded more randomly in a particular domain in one session also should respond more randomly in a second session whereas people who responded less randomly in one session also should respond less randomly in a second session. Second, we predicted that there would be some domain general randomness; people's randomness in one domain should predict their randomness in another domain. We used consistency coefficients across blocks of a session as an inverse measure of randomness and found (a) consistency coefficients correlated across sessions within the same domain and (b) consistency coefficients in one domain correlated with consistency coefficients in other domains.
authors.affiliation: a New Mexico State University.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Trafimow
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rice
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: consistency coefficient; generalizability; randomness; within-persons consistency