How effective are people at faking on personality questionnaires?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 247-256

  Martin, B A ^a   Bowen, C C ^b   Hunt, S T ^c  

^a JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHL   (United States)

Author keywords

Faking; Ipsative; Normative; Personality questionnaire

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243160194     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(01)00021-6     Document Type: Article

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