This volume addresses the often-overlooked issue of faking in personality tests, highlighting its impact on test validity and the broader implications for psychology. It explores how faking can invalidate test scores and the potential dishonesty of applicants.
Forward, David C. Funder. The Nature of Deception and Applicant Faking
Behavior, Richard L. Griffith and Michael McDaniel. A History of Faking and
Socially Desirable Responding on Personality Test, Michael Zickar and Robert
E. Gibby. Seven Nested Questions about Faking on Personality Tests: An
Overview and Interactionist Model of Item-Level Response Distortion, Robert P
Tett, Michael G. Anderson, Chia-Lin Ho, Tae Seok Yang, Lei Huang, and Apivat
Hanvongse. Assessing Response Distortion in Personality Tests: A Review of
Research Designs and Analytic Strategies, Jessica Mesmer-Magnus and
Chockalingam Viswesvaran. Sensitive or Senseless: On the Use of Social
Desirability Measures in Selection and Assessment, Gary N. Burns and Neil D.
Christiansen. Applicant Faking Behavior: Teasing Apart the Influence of
Situational Variance, Cognitive Biases, and Individual Differences, Richard
L. Griffith, Tina Malm, Andrew English, Yukiko Yoshita, Abhishek Gujar.
Understanding Responses to Personality Selection Measures: A Conditional
Model of the Applicant Reasoning Process, Andrea F. Snell and Chris D.
Fluckinger. A Socioanalytic View of Faking, John A. Johnson and Robert Hogan.
Faking and Job Performance: A Multi-Faceted Issue, Mitchell H. Peterson and
Richard L. Griffith. Forcing Choices in Personality Measurement: Benefits and
Limitations, Patrick D. Converse, Frederick L. Oswald, Anna Imus, Cynthia
Hedricks, Radha Roy, Hilary Butera, and Tanya Kiefer. The Use of Warnings to
Discourage Faking on Noncognitive Inventories, Victoria L. Pace and Walter C.
Borman. Faking on Non-Cognitive Measures: The Interaction of Cognitive
Ability and Test Characteristics, Nicholas L. Vasilopoulos and Jeffrey M.
Cucina. Let's Go Faking: Culture and Response Distortion in International
Employment Testing, Richard Frei, Yukiko Yoshita, and Joshua Isaacson. What
do We Know and Where Do We Go? Practical Directions for Faking Research, Ann
Marie Ryan and Anthony S. Boyce. Author Biography Notes.