Some people tend to be especially accurate about the personality impressions they make, but is meta-accuracy a consistent tendency that spans levels of acquaintanceship, or is it only observed within levels of acquaintanceship? Three studies suggested that meta-accuracy is consistent among close others but not across new acquaintances and close others. This pattern was observed for observable and unobservable traits and when accounting for people who made more consistent impressions on others (i.e., high consensus). Overall, meta-accuracy seems to be circumscribed within levels of acquaintanceship. The major implication of these results is that the mechanisms for meta-accuracy and the attributes of good meta-perceivers likely differ across levels of acquaintanceship.

有些人对他们的性格印象特别准确，但是元精度是跨越相识水平的一致趋势，还是仅在相识水平内观察到？三项研究表明，元精度在相近的对象之间是一致的，但在新的相识和相近的对象之间不是一致的。在观察到可观察到的和无法观察到的特征时，以及在考虑对他人的印象更一致的人（即高度共识）时，观察到了这种模式。总体而言，元精度似乎是在相识水平范围内的。这些结果的主要含义是，在不同的熟人水平上，元准确度的机制和良好的元感知者的属性可能会有所不同。