The research reported here examined the desirability and social utility of causal explanations. The first two studies analyzed the causal explanations (internal vs. external) of desirable and undesirable events spontaneously chosen by students to make a ...
Research on personal home pages is still rare. Many studies to date are exploratory, and the problem of drawing a sample that reflects the variety of existing home pages has not yet been solved. The present paper discusses sampling strategies and suggests ...
The most frequently used scale for measuring self-consciousness is Fenigstein et al.’s Self-Consciousness Questionnaire (SCQ; 1975), which measures dispositional self-consciousness along three dimensions: private self-consciousness, public self-...
The present study is concerned with impression formation in a context in which the information about others is limited and at the same time private by its very nature. We examined the accuracy of judges’ ratings of target individuals’ basic personality ...
An Interactionistic Approach to Personality PsychologySummary: Main goal of the contribution is to bring into relationship two basic positions of personality psychology, the trait and the dynamic-interactionistic approach. In the first part the five-...
Zusammenfassung. Die - vielfach belegte - Tatsache, dass Testpersonen in der Lage sind, ihre Ergebnisse in nicht leistungsbezogenen Testverfahren in Richtung sozialer Erwünschtheit zu erhöhen, wenn sie entsprechend instruiert werden, wird häufig als ...
The role of display rules in a job interview situationAbstract. A job interview situation was simulated in the laboratory. Each of the 74 men and women who participated was asked to complete a written test, a verbal self-presentation of his or her ...
Self-presenters, or people like you and me? Intentions and personality traits of owners of personal websitesAbstract. Referring to psychological theories of self-presentation, we give an overview of goals and audiences described as important by owners of ...
Do selection interviews measure what they intend to measure? The impact of applicants’ cognitions about evaluated behaviorAbstract. Often, the objective of structured selection interviews is to assess different performance dimensions that are relevant ...
Correlations between receptive self-presentation competence and performance in an assessment centerAbstract. Experimental studies in the laboratory evaluating the construct validity of the assessment center (AC) have demonstrated that candidates perform ...
We examined the factor structure, reliability, and construct validity of a Hebrew translation of Lennox and Wolfe’s Revised Self-Monitoring Scale (RSMS) and Concern for Appropriateness Scale (CAS) in a large Israeli population sample. A total of 1,294 ...
Abstract: People with high integrity should stubbornly insist on maintaining their moral stances regardless of how their stances will make them appear. However, we examined whether people who claim to be high in integrity will express ...
Abstract. First articulated in 2008, the concept of identity shift refers to the process of self-transformation that is the result of intentional self-presentation in a mediated context. As research into identity shift has become ...
Abstract. Self-monitoring is a key element in interpersonal interactions, guiding how people monitor and adjust their social behavior. Compared to low self-monitors, high self-monitors are more sensitive to and use social cues to direct ...
Abstract. This paper investigates the specific self-presentational situations in which people confirm or negate their comparative optimism in order to convey a favorable self-image. One pilot study and three experiments showed that people ...
This study contributes to the literature on self-presentation by comparing recruiters’ expectations about applicants’ self-presentational behaviors in personnel selection settings to applicants’ actual use of these behaviors. Recruiters (N = 51) rated the ...
Abstract. Having access to information on personality tests might make faking of personality tests easier because applicants are not hindered by incorrect assumptions about the scoring. Thus, this experiment tests whether very briefly ...