Social Network Accuracy Test (“SNAT”)

SNAT is an individual difference measure that assesses the degree to which an individual can accurately judge social network characteristics. Researchers are free to use this measure and do not need to ask for permission.

Reference:
Mobasseri, Sanaz, Daniel Stein, and Dana R. Carney. 2022. “The Accurate Judgment of Social Network Characteristics in the Lab and Field Using Thin Slices of the Behavioral Stream.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 168.

Abstract:
The Social Network Accuracy Test (SNAT) was created in order to provide a measure of people’s ability to detect and make inferences about the characteristics of other people’s social networks. The social network characteristics assessed using SNAT include social network size, gender and family composition, and interconnectedness. Based on our studies, the data harvested using the SNAT are consistent with data harvested using a completely different, real-world, face-to-face paradigm; thus, the SNAT appears to be a reliable and robust indicator of social network judgment accuracy. The SNAT is the first of its kind, and given how critical social networks are to professional attainment in organizations and careers more broadly, we hope it will be a useful contribution to researchers who can use social network data to ask new and important questions beyond what we’ve studied.

Files for use:

Link for OSF Repository, folder (“SNAT”), which contains survey materials and data for SNAT as well as further information and data from the studies in which SNAT was tested and used previously. This repository does NOT contain the SNAT stimuli (video clips).
-- Link for SNAT Qualtrics template
-- Link for SNAT target information
-- Link for a sample Qualtrics survey PDF using SNAT

Stimuli: The SNAT video stimuli are not included in the OSF repository. If you would like access to the video stimuli, please fill out the following form and we will email you directly: http://bit.ly/SNATRequest