To Fake or Not to Fake: Antecedents to Interview Faking, Warning Instructions, and Its Impact on Applicant Reactions.
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SUBMITTER: Law SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5108801 | biostudies-literature | 2016
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To Fake or Not to Fake: Antecedents to Interview Faking, Warning Instructions, and Its Impact on Applicant Reactions.
Law Stephanie J SJ Bourdage Joshua J O'Neill Thomas A TA
Frontiers in psychology 20161115
In the present study, we examined the antecedents and processes that impact job interviewees' decisions to engage in deceptive impression management (i.e., interview faking). Willingness and capacity to engage in faking were found to be the processes underlying the decision to use deceptive impression management in the interview. We also examined a personality antecedent to this behavior, Honesty-Humility, which was negatively related to the use of deceptive impression management through increas ...[more]
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