Measurement issues associated with conditional reasoning tests: An examination of faking

•Conditional reasoning tests measure personality by assessing implicit cognitions.•Responses on CR-based measures are typically unaffected by response distortion.•Two studies assessed the fakability of a CR measure of addiction proneness.•Results indicate that the CR measure is resistant to response...

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Published inPersonality and individual differences Vol. 55; no. 5; pp. 459 - 464
Main Authors Bowler, Jennifer L., Bowler, Mark C., Cope, John G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2013
Elsevier
Subjects
Addiction
Biological and medical sciences
Cognitive bias
Conditional reasoning
Faking
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Justification mechanism
Methodology. Experimentation
Personality. Affectivity
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychometrics
Psychometrics. Statistics. Methodology
Addiction
Justification mechanism
Faking
Conditional reasoning
Cognitive bias
Human
Methodology
Cognition
Personality
Response falsification
Implicit measure
Justification
Measurement method
Social desirability
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ISSN0191-8869
1873-3549
DOI10.1016/j.paid.2013.04.011

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Summary:•Conditional reasoning tests measure personality by assessing implicit cognitions.•Responses on CR-based measures are typically unaffected by response distortion.•Two studies assessed the fakability of a CR measure of addiction proneness.•Results indicate that the CR measure is resistant to response distortion. Conditional reasoning (CR) is a new item format that measures personality by indirectly assessing reliance upon the cognitive biases associated with specific traits (James et al., 2005). Previous research suggests that, relative to self-report measures, responses on CR-based measures are more difficult to distort (LeBreton, Barksdale, Robin, & James, 2007). The issue of response distortion in the context of CR-based measures was evaluated in two studies. Study 1 (within-subjects) and Study 2 (between-subjects) both investigated whether responses on a CR-based test of addiction could be faked when indirect assessment was upheld. Results of both studies indicated that, unlike a self-report measure of a similar construct, the CR-based measure was unaffected by response distortion.
ISSN:0191-8869
1873-3549
DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2013.04.011