Detecting fakers on a personnel test: Response latencies versus a standard validity scale

Journal of Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 387-398

  Holden, Ronald R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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