One of the interesting aspects of Barbara's interviews is that they give us an opportunity to go beyond our implicit personality theories> In an interview with Burt Reynolds, Barbara got Burt talking about his very emotional relationship with his father. The feelings Burt expressed showed a side of his personality that didn't fit our usual notion of the though, independent , "macho" actor. Similarly, Barbara interviews with Jesse during the 1984 presidential primaries enables Jesse to show a complex set of personal characteristics that couldn't be simply inferred from the fact that he was the first black man to run for president