Overclaiming on Personality Questionnaires

New Perspectives on Faking in Personality Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Paulhus, Delroy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exaggeration; Faking; Knowledge accuracy; Overclaiming; Personnel selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387476.003.0045     Document Type: Chapter

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