2011/05/13 by Marianne Schmid Mast, Adrian Bangerter, Céline Bulliard +1 · 3 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Personality Traits and Psychology #Deception detection and forensic psychology #Social and Intergroup Psychology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1468-2389.2011.00547.x
openalex publication_date 2011/05/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
The ability of recruiters and laypersons (students) to detect applicant personality traits and deception was studied. Participants viewed mock videotapes of target applicants answering interview questions. They subsequently judged the applicants' personality on the Big Five dimensions. Then, they viewed another videotape with other applicants presenting themselves either truthfully or not, and subsequently guessed which version was truthful. Personality judgments were compared with targets' self-assessments and peer assessments to create an accuracy score. Both recruiters and students accurately detected applicants' global personality profile. Recruiters were better at this than students. However, students were better at judging the specific traits of openness, extraversion, and conscientiousness, whereas recruiters only accurately detected openness. Recruiters detected lies above chance whereas students did not.