Faking and personality assessment in personnel selection: Advancing models of faking

Canadian Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 151-160

  Goffin, Richard D ^a   Boyd, Allison C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deception; Faking; Models; Personality; Personnel selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949104579     PISSN: 07085591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015946     Document Type: Article

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