The illusion of validity: how effort inflates the perceived validity of interview questions

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dc.contributor.authorZhang, Don C.
dc.contributor.authorKausel, Edgar E.
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T20:20:24Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T20:20:24Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractInterviewers are often confident in the validity of their interview questions. What drives this confidence and is it justified? In three studies, we found that question creators judged their own interview questions as more valid than when the same questions are judged by an evaluator. We also found that effort expenditure inflated the perceived validity of interview questions but not question quality. Question creators' perceptions of validity were primarily driven by their self-confidence, and not the question quality. As an intervention, we nudged participants into holding more favourable attitudes towards better questions (i.e., structured questions) by allowing them to choose a subset of them from a pre-written list. Together, we found that while effort expenditure was responsible for the illusion of validity when evaluating unstructured (i.e., low-quality) questions, the same mechanism could also be used to improve interviewers' acceptance of structured questions. Implications for structured interviews and the scientist-practitioner gap are discussed.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1359432X.2022.2144240
dc.identifier.eissn1464-0643
dc.identifier.issn1359-432X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2022.2144240
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/92576
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000882882900001
dc.issue.numero2
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final271
dc.pagina.inicio256
dc.revistaEuropean journal of work and organizational psychology
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectOverconfidence
dc.subjectstructured interviews
dc.subjectjudgement and decision making
dc.subjectemployee selection
dc.subjectcognitive dissonance
dc.titleThe illusion of validity: how effort inflates the perceived validity of interview questions
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen32
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sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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