New perspectives on faking in personality assessment
By: edited by Matthias Ziegler, Carolyn MacCann, Richard D. Roberts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780195387476
Subjects: Personality assessment
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Faking: knowns, unknowns, and points of contention / Matthias Ziegler, Carolyn MacCann, and Richard D. Roberts; title: People fake only when they need to fake  / Jill E. Ellingson; title: The rules of evidence and the prevalence of applicant faking / Richard L. Griffith and Patrick D. Converse; title: Questioning old assumptions: faking and the personality-performance relationship / D. Brent Smith and Max McDaniel; title: Faking does distort self-report personality assessment / Ronald R. Holden and Angela S. Book; title: A conceptual representation of faking: putting the horse back in front of the cart / Eric D. Heggestad; title: Innovative item response process and Bayesian faking detection methods: more questions than answers / Nathan R. Kuncel, Matthew Bornemann, and Thomas Kiger; title: Searching for unicorns: item response theory based solutions to the faking problem / Michael J. Zickar and Katherine A. Sliter; title: Methods for correcting for faking / Matthew C. Reeder and Ann Marie Ryan; title: Overclaiming on personality questionnaires / Delroy L. Paulhus; title: The detection of faking through word use / Matthew Ventura; title: Application of preventative strategies / Stephan Dilchert and Deniz Ones; title: Social desirability in personality assessment: outline of a model to explain individual differences / Martin Bäckström, Fredrik Björklund, and Magnus R. Larsson; title: Constructing fake-resistant personality tests using item response theory: high stakes personality testing with multidimensional pairwise preferences / Stephen Stark, Oleksandr S. Chernyshenk, and Fritz Drasgow; title: Is faking inevitable? Person-level strategies for reducing faking / Brian Lukoff; title: Plaintiffs who malinger: impact of litigation on fake testimony / Ryan C.W. Hall and Richard C.W. Hall; title: Intentional and unintentional faking in education / Jeremy Burrus, Bobby D. Naemi, and Patrick C. Kyllonen; title: Faking in personality assessment: reflections and recommendations / Carolyn MacCann, Matthias Ziegler, and Richard D. Roberts; title: Faking in personality assessment: concluding thoughts / Paul R. Sackett.