Perceived conscientiousness and openness to experience mediate the relationship between vocal and visual features and hiring decision in the interview

Abstract

This study used the theory of dispositional attribution and an adapted version of Brunswik's lens model to examine whether the relationship between vocal and visual cues and hiring recommendation is mediated by raters' judgments of speakers' personality traits. The results of mediation analyses suggest that for most of the vocal and visual cues examined, perceptions of interviewees' conscientiousness and openness to experience mediated the relationship between cues and interview performance. This suggests that the vocal and visual cues an interviewee displays convey important information about his or her personality traits to an interviewer.