Interestingly, the extent to which explicit (Aminoff et al.2012) and implicit (Han, 2009) manipulations induce criterion shift may partially depend on individual personality differences. Notably, these personality influences impacted criterion learning in nonsocial contexts. Personality effects could be exacerbated in a social context. For instance, given that increased negative affect is associated with less criterion shifting (Aminoff et al. 2012), potentially because of less cognitive flexibility, source characteristics could further modulate the extent of relative criterion shift. Individuals with increased negative affect could display even less shifting when the person providing feedback was perceived as low-achieving. Future work could also connect personality to the tendency to 706 Mem Cogn (2015) 43:695–708 become lax or strict when receiving feedback from sources varying in reliability. For instance, the tendency to become more conservative with time given feedback from a reliable source could be related to neuroticism or anxiety around others given particular sensitivity to losses. These assessments could inform interpersonal feedback situations, such as responses