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PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 52, Issue 2, Pages 195-201Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.10.017
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Faking; Personality testing; Trait-emotional intelligence; Cognitive ability; Trait specificity; Trait-job-relevance
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We assessed the combined effects of cognitive ability, opportunity to fake, and trait job-relevance on faking self-report emotional intelligence and personality tests by having 150 undergraduates complete such tests honestly and then so as to appear ideal for one of three jobs: nurse practitioner, marketing manager, and computer programmer. Faking, as expected, was greater (a) in higher-g participants, (b) in those scoring lower under honest conditions (with greater opportunity to fake), and (c) on job-relevant traits. Predicted interactions accounted for additional unique variance in faking. Combining all three factors yielded a perfect storm standardized difference of around 2, more than double the overall .83 estimate. Implications for the study of faking are discussed. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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