Does online psychological test administration facilitate faking?
This study examined for the first time the effect of delivery mode on faking good and faking bad in psychological testing. Participants (N=223) completed questionnaires either online or in pen-and-paper format in a mixed experimental design. After completing measures of personality (HEXACO-60, Ashto...
| Published in: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 27; no. 6; pp. 2386 - 2392 |
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Elsevier Science
November 2011
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