Consideration of g as a common antecedent for cognitive ability test performance, test motivation, and perceived fairness

Intelligence

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 347-358

  Reeve, Charlie L ^a   Lam, Holly ^b  

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

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

General cognitive ability; Perceived test fairness; Self serving bias hypothesis; Test attitudes; Test taking motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247160412     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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