New Perspectives on Faking in Personality Assessments (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	August 2011
Editors:	Matthias Ziegler (Junior Professor of Psychological Assessment) • Carolyn MacCann (Lecturer in Psychology) • Richard Roberts (Principal Research Scientist in the Center for New Constructs)
Dimensions:	239 x 164 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-538747-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Psychological methodology > Psychological testing & measurement Promotions
LSN:	0-19-538747-3
Barcode:	9780195387476

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