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A Closer Examination of Applicant Faking Behavior v. 1 (Hardcover, New)
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A Closer Examination of Applicant Faking Behavior v. 1 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Research in Organizational Science
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The faking of personality tests in a selection context has been
perceived as somewhat of a nuisance variable, and largely ignored,
or glossed over by the academic literature. Instead of examining
the phenomenon many researchers have ignored its existence, or
trivialized the impact of faking on personality measurement. The
present volume is a much needed, timely corrective to this
attitude. In a wide range of chapters representing different
philosophical and empirical approaches, the assembled authors
demonstrate the courage to tackle this important and difficult
topic head-on, as it deserves to be. The writers of these chapters
identify two critical concerns with faking. First, if people fake
their responses to personality tests, the resulting scores and the
inferences drawn from them might become invalid. For example,
people who fake their responses by describing themselves as
diligent and prompt might earn better conscientiousness scores, and
therefore be hired for jobs requiring this trait that in fact they
might not perform satisfactorily. Second, the dishonesty of the
faker might itself be a problem, separate from its effect on a
particular score. Someone who lies on a pre-employment test might
also lie about the hours he or she works, or how much cash is in
the till at the end of the shift. Worse, these two problems might
exacerbate each other: a dishonest applicant might get higher
scores on the traits the employer desires through his or her lying,
whereas the compulsively honest applicant might get low scores as
an ironic penalty for being honest. Outcomes like these harm
employers and applicants alike. The more one delves into the
complexities of faking, as the authors of the chapters in this
volume do so thoroughly and so well, the more one will recognize
that this seemingly specialized topic ties directly to more general
issues in psychology. One of these is test validity. The
bottom-line question about any test score, faked or not, is whether
it will predict the behaviors and outcomes that it is designed to
predict. As Johnson and Hogan point out in their chapter, the
behavior of someone faking a test is a subset of the behavior of
the person in his or her entire life, and the critical research
question concerns the degree to which and manner in which behavior
in one domain generalizes to behavior in other domains. This
observation illuminates the fact that the topic of faking is also a
key part of understanding the relationship between personality and
behavior. The central goal of theoretical psychology is to
understand why people do the things they do. The central goal of
applied psychology is to predict what someone will do in the
future. Both of these goals come together in the study of applicant
faking.
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