This study hypothesized that sender trait altruism would be positively related to the accuracy with which receivers of feedback messages from senders would be able to judge the quality of the performance that the sender had evaluated. A quasi-experiment was conducted wherein a feedback sender's trait altruism was measured, the sender was exposed to a performance of varying quality, the sender produced a taped feedback message about the performance, and then samples of receivers were asked to judge the quality of the performance reviewed using the taped message. The data were not consistent with the hypothesis and suggested that perhaps there is a negative relationship. Receiver accuracy in judging performance quality was positively related to sender trait extroversion and this relationship was moderated by the sender's trait altruism. Theoretical and methodological limitations of the study are discussed.
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