Applicant Perceptions of Test Fairness: Integrating Justice and Self-Serving Bias Perspectives

• Main Authors: CHAN, David, SCHMITT, Neal, JENNINGS, Danielle, CLAUSE, Catherine S., DELBRIDGE, Kerry
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1998
• Subjects: Employment tests; occupational aptitude tests; Employee selection; Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/225
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The justice perspective is the current dominant framework for research on applicant perceptions of test fairness. Recently, an emerging perspective suggests that self-serving bias mechanisms may be operative in the development of test fairness perceptions. Using data from 494 actual applicants to an...