Dissembling on Hpi \ Dissembling on the Hogan Personality Inventory during Sirrulated Personrel Selection

Dissembling on the Hogan Personality Inventory during Sirrulated Personrel Selection John A. Johnson Pennsylvania State University, DuBois campus Abstract Seventy-eight subjects COI'lpleted the Hogan Personality Inventory under normal instructions and then as if applying for the following four positions: Truck Driver, Banb Disposal Technician, Psychiatric Counselor, and Manager. For each occupation except Truck Driver, scores on a criterion-keyed scale gathered under dissembling instructions were significantly higher than scores gathered under normal instructions. Additional analyses iooicated that ability to dissenble is neither affected by the social desirability of the items nor is predictable from baseline personality scores. Whether dissembl ing affects the utility of the HPI in personnel selection remains unknown; research that can answer that question is described.