Ethnic stereotypes: Norms on 208 words typically used in their assessment.

Kirby, D.; Gardner, R. C.

doi:10.1037/h0082423

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“…To the extent that a personality trait has 'clear behavioral connotations', it is easier to picture a person behaving in a way implied by the trait (Hampson, John and Goldberg, 1986). Specific and narrow personality variables have clear behavioral connotations (Kirby and Gardner, 1972).…”

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Bandwidth–fidelity dilemma in personality measurement for personnel selection

1996

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SummaryThis paper presents a discussion of the bandwidth-fidelity dilemma in personality measurement for personnel selection purposes. Should job applicants be assessed on finegrained personality variables or on broader personality variables, such as the Big Five dimensions of personality? Most human resources practitioners and researchers appear to assume that more specific and narrow measures of personality traits result in better and more fine-grained understanding of the person, and therefore ought to be preferred over global measures. We review evidence that when the criterion of interest is job performance, broader personality measures may be preferable over narrowly focused ones. It appears that the alleged advantages of narrowly defined traits and narrowly constructed measures are mainly due to erroneous conventional beliefs predicated upon statistical artifacts. In personnel selection research and practice, we advocate the use of broader personality traits for both better prediction and explanation.

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Bandwidth–fidelity dilemma in personality measurement for personnel selection

1996

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“…The behavioral characteristics were drawn from two sources: (1) lists of traits that had been rated as desirable and undesirable in various psychological studies (Kirby and Gardner 1972;Bochner and Van Zyl 1985;Hampson, Goldberg, and John 1987); and (2) characteristics that had been rated as primarily influenced by genes, or primarily by the environment, in public opinion studies (Singer, Corning, and Lamias 1998). From these sources, we chose characteristics that (a) were clearly positive or negative; (b) had small standard deviations around the ratings; (c) could be considered either environmental or genetic in origin; and (d) could apply equally well to men and women.…”

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The Effect of Question Framing and Response Options on the Relationship between Racial Attitudes and Beliefs about Genes as Causes of Behavior

Singer¹,

Couper²,

Raghunathan³

et al. 2010

Public Opinion Quarterly

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Prior research suggests that the attribution of individual and group differences to genetic causes is correlated with prejudiced attitudes toward minority groups. Our study suggests that these findings may be due to the wording of the questions and to the choice of response options. Using a series of vignettes in an online survey, we find a relationship between racial attitudes and genetic attributions when respondents are asked to make causal attributions of differences between racial groups. However, when they are asked to make causal attributions for characteristics shown by individuals, no such relationship is found. The response scale used appears to make less, if any, difference in the results. These findings indicate that the way questions about genetic causation of beha-

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“…A list of 80 trait adjectives was selected from Kirby & Gardner's (1972) norms to create a personality questionnaire. The adjectives selected were close to the norm means on the dimensions of familiarity, imagery, and behavioral specificity and spanned the range of social desirability.…”

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Self-knowledge of an amnesic patient: Toward a neuropsychology of personality and social psychology.

Klein¹,

Loftus²,

Kihlstrom³

1996

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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The authors present the case of W.J., who, as a result of a head injury, temporarily lost access to her episodic memory. W.J. was asked both during her amnesia and following its resolution to make trait judgments about herself. Because her responses when she could access episodic memories were consistent with her responses when she could not, the authors conclude that the loss of episodic memory did not greatly affect the availability of her trait self-knowledge. The authors discuss how neuropsychological evidence can contribute to theorizing about personality and social processes.

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Ethnic stereotypes: Norms on 208 words typically used in their assessment.

Cited by 80 publications

References 9 publications

Bandwidth–fidelity dilemma in personality measurement for personnel selection

Bandwidth–fidelity dilemma in personality measurement for personnel selection

The Effect of Question Framing and Response Options on the Relationship between Racial Attitudes and Beliefs about Genes as Causes of Behavior

Self-knowledge of an amnesic patient: Toward a neuropsychology of personality and social psychology.

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