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Do warnings of response verification moderate the relationship between personality and cognitive ability?
Nicholas L Vasilopoulos1, Jeffrey M Cucina, Julia M McElreath
1The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA. nlv@gwu.edu
Abstract:
This article presents the results of 2 studies that examine the effect of presenting a warning of response verification by others on the relationship between measures of personality and cognitive ability. In both a field study and a laboratory study, stronger correlations were generally found between measures of personality and cognitive ability when a warning of verification was present. The results from the studies also showed that the warning of verification was associated with slower item response latencies for certain personality scales, suggesting that exposure to the warning increased the complexity of the response decision. Results are discussed in terms of the effects of altering test instructions on the construct validity of personality measures used in applied settings.
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