Three more attempts to prevent faking good in personality questionnaires

This paper describes the attempt to prevent faking good in personality questionnaires by several (new) means. Firstly, an analog response format was used instead of forced choice or another categorical response format; results based on the replication of an earlier experiment are presented. Secondly, the hypothesis that an “over-kill” number of items cause an examinee to finally give up faking good was considered. Thirdly, the hypothesis was tested that faking good can be prevented by use of a warning instruction stating that the computer is able to identify whether or not an examinee’s answers fit a realistic personality profile. Both the latter hypotheses were investigated and rejected in another experiment. The same is true as concerns the replication of the experiment applying an analog response format. However, it is argued that the experiments described in this paper use volunteers as subjects; evidence is given that answering behavior changes considerably, depending on whether an examinee is a job appli-cant or merely a volunteer