Wednesday, September 4, 2019

This Week's New Publications (August 1st - August 7th)

We are proud to share our faculty and graduate students' accomplishments in research.  We have 6 new publications in our department.


Recovering bifactor models: A comparison of seven methods.

C Giordano, NG Waller - Psychological methods, 2019
The last decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in exploratory bifactor analysis models and the concomitant development of new methods to estimate these models. Understandably, due to the rapid pace of developments in this area, existing …

Personality Heterogeneity in Adolescents With Disruptive Behavior Disorders

S Wilson, CJ Hopwood, M McGue, WG Iacono - Journal of Research in Personality, 2019
We first confirmed adolescents diagnosed with disruptive behavior disorders (oppositional defiant, conduct disorder; n= 158) had lower constraint and higher negative emotionality, and greater psychiatric comorbidity and psychosocial …

Personality assessment for work: Legal, IO, and clinical perspective

S Dilchert, DS Ones, RF Krueger - Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2019
Personality tests are reliable and valid tools that can aid organizations in identifying suitable employees. They provide utility for maximizing organizational productivity and for avoiding claims of negligent hiring. When properly deployed, personality tests (both normal and …

A Meta-Analytic Structural Model of Self-Monitoring, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Status at Work

MP Wilmot, DS Ones, JE Barbuto - Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019
Gangestad and Snyder (2000) theorized that concerns for status are the motivational foundation of self-monitoring and that its self-presentational behavior is designed to cultivate social status. We present the most comprehensive meta-analytic test of …

Constructs versus measures in personality and other domains: What distinguishes normal and clinical?

BM Wiernik, MA Bornovalova, SE Stark, DS Ones - Industrial and Organizational …, 2019
Psychopathology has long been recognized as dysfunction of normal psychological systems (Cloninger, 1987; Eysenck, 1947). Indeed, examination of psychological disorders is one of the avenues through which the structure of normal personality was discovered …

Game-Framing to Improve Applicant Perceptions of Cognitive Assessments

AB Collmus, RN Landers - Journal of Personnel Psychology, 2019
General cognitive ability is one of the best predictors of job performance, but applicant reactions are often poor. In two samples, we experimentally tested game-framing, the labeling of an ability test as a “game” without changing its content, as a …