The role of emotions as mechanisms of mid-test warning messages during personality testing: A field experiment

• Main Authors: LI, Hairong, FAN, Jinyan, ZHAO, Guoxiang, WANG, Minghui, ZHENG, Lu, MENG, Hui, WENG, Qingxiong, LIU, Yanping, Filip LIEVENS
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: warnings; guilt; fear; anger; applicant faking; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6854; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7853/viewcontent/Midwarning.pdf; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7853/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/apl0000885Mid_TestWarningSupplement.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This study focuses on the role of emotions in personnel selection and faking research. In particular, we posit that emotions are likely to be activated when applicants receive warning messages from organizations. Drawing on Nabi (Nabi, Communication Theory, 9, 1999, 292) cognitive-functional model o...