The more that the other person is liked and familiar to us, the more their ratings contribute to the ratings of the group--to similar levels of the self to group contribution.

Alma College

Participants considered themselves and their roommates to be dissimilar to the overall larger group of university students. They found that self judgements were better predictors of group judgements when compared to judgements of another well-known person.

Study 1 Results: Self & Other Knowledge

Krueger, J., & Stanke, D. (2001). The role of self-referent and other-referent knowledge in perceptions of group characteristics. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27(7), 878-888.

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