New Perspectives on Faking in Personality Assessment

Name: New Perspectives on Faking in Personality Assessment
Brand: Oxford University Press
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By Matthias Ziegler

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In this volume, a diverse group of world experts in personality assessment showcase a range of different viewpoints on response distortion. Contributors consider what it means to "fake" a personality assessment, why and how people try to obtain particular scores on personality tests, and what types of tests people can successfully manipulate. The authors present and discuss the usefulness of a range of traditional and cutting-edge methods for detecting and controlling the practice of faking. These methods include social desirability (lie) scales, warnings, affective neutralization, unidimensional and multidimensional pairwise preferences, decision trees, linguistic analysis, situational measures, and methods based on item response theory. The wide range of viewpoints presented in this book are then summarized, synthesized, and evaluated. The authors make practical recommendations and suggest areas for future research. Anyone who wonders whether people exaggerate or lie outright on personality tests -- or questions what psychologists can and should do about it -- will find in this book stimulating questions and useful answers.

Product details

Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 386
Release Date:: 2011-08-22
Publication Date:: 2011-08-01
Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0195387473
ISBN13:: 9780195387476
Weight:: 743 g
Height:: 16.1 cm
Width:: 24 cm
Thickness:: 2.5 cm

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