Liar! Liar! (when stakes are higher): Understanding how the overclaiming technique can be used to measure faking in personnel selection.

Patrick Damien Dunlop, Joshua Steven Bourdage, Reinout E. de Vries, Ilona M. McNeill, Karina Jorritsma, Megan Orchard, Tomas Austen, Teesha Baines +1 more

2019-11-12articleJournal of Applied Psychology51 citationsgreen

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Psychological Testing and Assessment Psychometric Methodologies and Testing Deception detection and forensic psychology

Abstract

= 259), we observed more overclaiming during a selection assessment compared with a research assessment, and we observed that this job-application overclaiming behavior predicted deviant behavior following selection. Altogether, the results show that overclaiming behavior is most indicative of faking in job application assessments when an OCQ contains job-relevant (rather than job-irrelevant) content. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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