New Perspectives on Faking in Personality Assessment [Hardcover]

In this volume, a diverse group of world experts in personality assessment showcase a range of different viewpoints on response distortion. Contributors consider what it means to fake a personality assessment, why and how people try to obtain particular scores on personality tests, and what types of tests people can successfully manipulate. The authors present and discuss the usefulness of a range of traditional and cutting-edge methods for detecting and controlling the practice of faking. These methods include social desirability (lie) scales, warnings, affective neutralization, unidimensional and multidimensional pairwise preferences, decision trees, linguistic analysis, situational measures, and methods based on item response theory. The wide range of viewpoints presented in this book are then summarized, synthesized, and evaluated. The authors make practical recommendations and suggest areas for future research. Anyone who wonders whether people exaggerate or lie outright on personality tests -- or questions what psychologists can and should do about it -- will find in this book stimulating questions and useful answers.

I. General Background

1. Faking: Knowns, Unknowns, and Points of Contention
Matthias Ziegler, Carolyn MacCann, and Richard D. Roberts

II. Do People Fake and Does It Matter? The Existence of Faking and Its Impact on Personality Assessments

2. People Fake Only When They Need to Fake
Jill E. Ellingson

3. The Rules of Evidence and the Prevalence of Applicant Faking
Richard L. Griffith and Patrick D. Converse

4. Questioning Old Assumptions: Faking and the Personality-Performance Relationship
D. Brent Smith and Max McDaniel

5. Faking Does Distort Self-Report Personality Assessment
Ronald R. Holden and Angela S. Book

III. Can We Tell if People Fake? The Detection and Correction of Response Distortion

6. A Conceptual Representation of Faking: Putting the Horse Back in Front olÓ%