New Perspectives on Faking in Personality Assessment

Abstract

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 of the Cart Eric D. Heggestad 7. Innovative Item Response Process and Bayesian Faking Detection Methods: More Questions than Answers Nathan R. Kuncel, Matthew Bornemann, and Thomas Kiger 8. Searching for Unicorns: Item Response Theory Based Solutions to the Faking Problem Michael J. Zickar and Katherine A. Wolford 9. Methods for Correcting For Faking Matthew C. Reeder and Ann Marie Ryan 10. Overclaiming on Personality Questionnaires Delroy L. Paulhus 11. The Detection of Faking through Word Use Matthew Ventura IV. Can We Stop People from Faking? Preventative Strategies 12. Application of Preventative Strategies Stephan Dilchert and Deniz Ones 13. Social Desirability in Personality Assessment: Outline of a Model to Explain Individual Differences Martin Backstrom, Fredrik Bjorklund, and Magnus R. Larsson 14. Constructing Fake-Resistant Personality Tests Using Item Response Theory: High Stakes Personality Testing with Multidimensional Pairwise Preferences Stephen Stark, Oleksandr S. Chernyshenk, and Fritz Drasgow 15. Is Faking Inevitable? Person-level Strategies for Reducing Faking Brian Lukoff V. Is Faking a Consequential Issue Outside a Job Selection Context? Current Applications and Future Directions in Clinical and Educational Settings 16. Plaintiffs who Malinger: Impact of Litigation on Fake Testimony Ryan C.W. Hall and Richard C.W. Hall 17. Intentional and Unintentional Faking in Education Jeremy Burrus, Bobby D. Naemi, and Patrick C. Kyllonen VI. Conclusions 18. Faking in Personality Assessment: Reflections and Recommendations Carolyn MacCann, Matthias Ziegler, and Richard D. Roberts 19. Faking in Personality Assessment: Concluding Thoughts Paul Sackett