Forced-choice assessments of personality for selection: evaluating issues of normative assessment and faking resistance

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 9-24

  Heggestad, Eric D ^a,d   Morrison, Morgan ^a   Reeve, Charlie L ^b,d   McCloy, Rodney A ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HUMAN RESOURCES RESEARCH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement; Personality; Response distortion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

HUMANS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 31344453959     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.91.1.9     Document Type: Article

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