Article
Psychology, Applied
Tianjun Sun, Bo Zhang, Mengyang Cao, Fritz Drasgow
Summary: This article explores the effects of faking on response processes and identifies fakers using the three-process model. The study found that individuals instructed or expected to fake tend to engage in more extreme responding, improving our understanding of faking behavior.
ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Angus W. Hughes, Patrick D. Dunlop, Djurre Holtrop, Serena Wee
Summary: The study investigated the agreement among respondents regarding the ideal applicant response under different levels of item matching, revealing that higher agreement was observed with poorer matching. Additionally, differences in item desirability were evident across different job conditions even in closely matched blocks.
JOURNAL OF PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Adrian Hoffmann, Birk Diedenhofen, Sascha Muller
Summary: Overclaiming questionnaires (OCQs) are a promising method for assessing individual self-enhancement tendencies, but their utility is influenced by the fit between the content and context.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Henning Hummert, Anne Traum, Bernd Marcus
Summary: This study empirically tested a theory of self-presentation, finding support for some antecedents of initial motivation, motivational changes during the selection process, and the impact of the discrepancy between true self-image and perceived expectations on self-presentation motivation. However, little support was found for propositions related to willingness to adapt to perceived employer's ideals and antecedents of analytical skills.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Business
Michael Schilling, Nicolas Roulin, Martin Obschonka, Cornelius J. Konig
Summary: Researchers found individual and regional predictors for applicant faking intentions, such as conscientiousness, competitive worldviews, and religiosity. Macro-psychological conscientiousness and competitive worldviews were correlated with average faking intentions at the regional level, while regional economic situation had no effect.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Social
Kinsey B. Bryant-Lees, David M. LaHuis
Summary: The study proposes a new approach to personality measurement using item-response theory, which can simultaneously capture trait levels, within-person variability, and differences in trait relevance. Results indicate that these three aspects can be statistically distinguished and provide incremental variance in related outcomes. This method allows researchers to better understand the role of personality in the workplace.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Alexandra Martinez, Jesus F. Salgado
Summary: This study found that forced-choice inventories exhibit resistance to faking, with quasi-ipsative formats showing greater resistance. Faking is more pronounced in experimental settings, suggesting it may be a laboratory phenomenon. Additionally, smaller effect sizes were observed for conscientiousness in quasi-ipsative formats, and for applicant samples compared to experimental samples.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Pia Ingold, Markus Langer
Summary: This study conducted two online studies to investigate the impact of traditional resumes, social media resumes, and blockchain resumes on applicant fraud behavior and reactions. The results showed that the novel resume formats triggered less favorable reactions and led to lower organizational attractiveness, suggesting caution in considering innovative resume formats for hiring practices.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Mitchell E. Munns, Chuanxiuyue He, Alexis Topete, Mary Hegarty
Summary: This article proposes an approach to develop valid, reliable, and efficient computer-based tests of spatial skills, illustrated through the development of a test for visualizing cross-sections of 3D objects. After pilot testing, the test showed good psychometric properties and measured a domain-general ability to visualize cross-sections.
JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Social
Neil D. Christiansen, Chet Robie, Gary N. Burns, Robert W. Loy, Andrew B. Speer, Rick R. Jacobs
Summary: This study compared the psychometric properties of scores from a personality inventory in low-stakes and high-stakes testing contexts, finding that applicants had higher trait scores and common factor loadings than incumbents. Additionally, there was a positive linear trend relating cognitive ability to increases in scale scores and common factor loadings in the applicant sample, which differs from the traditional differentiation of personality by intelligence hypothesis.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2021)
Article
Business
Patrick D. Dunlop, Djurre Holtrop, Liam M. Ashby, Anupama Bharadwaj, John J. Donovan
Summary: This study investigated individual differences in faking during simulated high-stakes personality assessments using a novel experimental paradigm based on expectancy (VIE) theory. The results showed that perceived job desirability was the strongest determinant of faking, along with perceived instrumentality and expectancy. Honesty-humility was also associated with faking, although the association was unexpectedly positive. When all predictors were combined, only perceived job desirability remained a significant motivational determinant of faking, with cognitive ability also being a positive predictor. Furthermore, faking was found to have an impact on predictive validity, with higher validity observed among the group that had engaged in more extensive faking.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Applied
HyeSun Lee
Summary: This study compared the degree of faking in Likert-scale and forced-choice five-factor tests in South Korea and the United States. It found that Likert-scale tests had higher levels of faking and that the forced-choice format was effective in reducing faking in both countries, although the patterns of faking varied between the two countries.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SELECTION AND ASSESSMENT
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Gancheng Zhu, Yuci Zhou, Fengfeng Zhou, Min Wu, Xiangping Zhan, Yingdong Si, Peng Wang, Jun Wang
Summary: This study proposed a novel method for assessing proactive personality by combining text mining technology and Item Response Theory. Three different approaches were employed to develop proactive personality evaluation models, with the combined method achieving the best performance. Evaluation through confusion matrix indicators indicated the novel method significantly outperformed traditional methods based on IRT and text mining.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Nekane Balluerka, Arantxa Gorostiaga, Alexander Rodriguez-Lopez, Jone Aliri
Summary: Personality plays a moderate predictive role in job performance, and the OPERAS scale developed for the Basque region is suitable for assessing personality characteristics. Person-organization fit and adaptive performance can enhance the predictive capacity of personality in relation to organizational citizenship behaviors.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Jeromy Anglim, Karlyn Molloy, Patrick D. Dunlop, Simon L. Albrecht, Filip Lievens, Andrew Marty
Summary: This study investigated the impact of job applicant context on the psychometric structure and scale means of self-reported values measure. Results showed significant differences in values between applicants and non-applicants, with applicants valuing certain aspects more and others less. Despite potential embellishment, the underlying structure of values assessment remained largely consistent in job applicant contexts.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods
Seang-Hwane Joo, Philseok Lee, Stephen Stark
Summary: Differential item functioning (DIF) analysis is an important application of item response theory (IRT) in psychological assessment. This study compared the performance of two Bayesian DIF methods and a generalized graded unfolding model (GGUM) through simulations and found some interesting results.
APPLIED PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT
(2022)
Article
Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods
Seang-Hwane Joo, Philseok Lee, Stephen Stark
Summary: This study explores the benefits of using collateral information in noncognitive measurement, introduces a new model approach, and conducts a simulation study showing superior accuracy and precision compared to traditional methods.
APPLIED PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Philseok Lee, Seang-Hwane Joo, Steven Zhou, Mina Son
Summary: Multidimensional forced choice (MFC) personality tests have emerged as important personnel assessments in industrial and organizational psychology. This study investigated the influence of heteropolar blocks on the reliability and validity of MFC tests, and found that using the Thurstonian Item Response Theory (TIRT) scoring method and higher intrablock discrimination improves reliability and criterion-related validity. The study also suggests that using highly discriminating 20-40% heteropolar blocks with the TIRT model can achieve sufficient reliability and validity.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Balca Alaybek, Reeshad S. Dalal, Shea Fyffe, John A. Aitken, You Zhou, Xiao Qu, Alexis Roman, Julia Baines
Summary: The peak-end rule suggests that people rely more on the peak intensity and final episode when retrospectively evaluating an experience. Our meta-analysis supports this rule, showing a strong effect on retrospective evaluations that is robust and comparable to the overall average score. The effect is stronger than the trend and variability across all episodes, as well as the first and lowest intensity episodes, and is essentially unaffected by the duration of the experience.
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Arpita Ghosh, Sean Joo, Taylor P. Harris, Itzik Harosh
Summary: This study aims to assess the measurement invariance of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) across US military veterans and civilians. The results suggest that the MHC-SF can be equally applied to both veterans and civilians in terms of emotional, social, and psychological well-being.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Business
Philseok Lee, Shea Fyffe, Mina Son, Zihao Jia, Ziyu Yao
Summary: This research explores the application of natural language processing techniques in automatic item generation for personality assessment. It utilizes a prompt-based generative pre-trained transformer to generate personality items and compares their psychometric properties with human-authored items. The study also examines the measurement invariance of machine-authored items between gender groups.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Philseok Lee, Sean Joo, Zihao Jia
Summary: The ? response category has been criticized for its ambiguity. Previous studies on this topic have been limited to Western samples and have not disentangled the response style from psychological traits. This study used item response tree models to compare the use of the ? response category in U.S. and Korean samples. The results showed that the Korean group preferred the ? response category more strongly, while the U.S. group preferred the directional response category (i.e., Yes). Additionally, the interpretations of the ? response category differed between the two groups.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SELECTION AND ASSESSMENT
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Jennifer P. Green, Reeshad S. Dalal, Shea Fyffe, Stephen J. Zaccaro, Dan J. Putka, David M. Wallace
Summary: This research aims to develop a taxonomy of leadership situations by using situation ratings and narratives from 1,159 leaders. The study utilizes natural language processing techniques to generate psychological situation characteristics. The findings suggest six dimensions for psychological leadership situation characteristics and provide a preliminary typology of structural leadership situation cue combinations. The resulting measure offers valuable implications for leadership research, assessment, and development.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Shea Fyffe, Philseok Lee, Seth Kaplan
Summary: Natural language processing (NLP) techniques are gaining popularity in industrial and organizational psychology. This research explores the use of NLP for scale development by manually categorizing scale items based on their constructs. The study introduces transformer models for content analysis and compares their performance with human raters and alternative models.
ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS
(2023)
Article
Business
Philseok Lee, Sean Joo, Mina Son
Summary: This study addresses the problem of careless responses in multidimensional forced-choice (MFC) data by proposing a method for detecting careless respondents and examining its impact on different MFC measures and psychometric properties. Empirical and simulation studies show that the proposed method effectively detects careless respondents without a significant risk of misclassification.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Ze Zhu, Alan J. Tomassetti, Reeshad S. Dalal, Shannon W. Schrader, Kevin Loo, Isaac E. Sabat, Balca Alaybek, You Zhou, Chelsea Jones, Shea Fyffe
Summary: Policy capturing is a widely used technique in research, and this article emphasizes the importance of reporting test-retest reliability estimates in such studies. A meta-analysis conducted in this study found an average reliability estimate of 0.78. The research indicates that test-retest reliability is generally robust across various factors, but variations were observed in study methods and types of judgments.
ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS
(2022)