Abstract
This research introduces the Interest in Personality Scale (IPS), a self-report measure assessing individual differences in interest in, and attentiveness to, others' personalities. Seven studies were meta-analyzed to examine the correlates of the IPS, and participants (N=1004) were drawn from student and online population. The IPS demonstrated good internal reliability, and it correlated significantly with a number of traits and demographic characteristics. People who scored higher on the IPS were more likely to be women and to be younger; described themselves as more agreeable, conscientious, extraverted, open to experience, dominant, empathic, masculine, feminine, agentic, communal, and narcissistic; and reported more positive relations with others. Emotion recognition and humanitarianism correlated positively with IPS marginally. Neuroticism, a bipolar femininity-masculinity scale, personal distress, and Machiavellianism were unrelated to the IPS.
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