The purpose of this study was to investigate self-stereotypes about extroversion among Black women, in the context of the importance of ethnicity and gender identity. Participants were asked to rate their level of extroversion based on their perceived ratings of how others rate their level of extroversion and also their perceived ratings of how others rate their level of extroversion . Results revealed that Black women's ratings of their perceived evaluations of distant others were higher when their ethnicity was predominant than when their gender was predominant. Black women's ratings of how they thought close others would view them were higher than their perceived ratings of distant others, regardless of which social identity was predominant. Results also showed that Black women's self-evaluations were more directly related to their perceived evaluations of close others than to their perceived evaluations of distant others, regardless of dominant social identity. The results indicate that black women do not use the general stereotype to evaluate themselves, but rather they make self-evaluations based on how they think those close to them evaluate them. Introduction: According to Brewer and Gardner (1996), there are several ways in which an individual will define and interpret themselves, one of which is to define themselves in terms of the groups to which they belong. Depersonalization is when an individual classifies themselves as belonging to a group. According to Simon and Hamilton (1994), individuals tend to overlook distinct individual personalities, but instead view themselves as possessing universal qualities with members of that group. This results in people changing to fit the desired norms within the group and...... middle of paper ...... ethnicity was important compared to when their gender was important . It was also predicted that Black women's ratings of how they thought close others would rate them would be lower than perceived ratings of distant others, regardless of which social identity was predominant, as proposed by Sinclair and Huntsinger ( 2006), who suggested that black women people perceive that their significant others are more likely to have a less stereotypical view of them. Black women's self-ratings are expected to be closer to the perceived ratings of their significant others than they would be to the perceived ratings of distant others, regardless of dominant social identity. Evidence for this is provided by Sinclair, Hardin & Lowery (2006) Shared reality theory which suggests that self-evaluations are mediated by the perceived evaluations of close others..