What do fakers actually do to fake the IAT? An investigation of faking strategies under different faking conditions

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 330-338

  Röhner, Jessica ^a   Schröder Abé, Michela ^b   Schütz, Astrid ^b  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Faking strategies; Faking success; Implicit Association Test (IAT)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875793376     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.02.009     Document Type: Article

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