Assessing the Implicit Personality Through Conditional Reasoning

252 Pages·2011·1.961 MB·English

by  Lawrence R. James, James M. LeBreton

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n 1. Personality assessment. 2. Subconsciousness. I. LeBreton, James M. II. Title.
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Printed in the United States of America
First Edition
DOI: 10.1037/13095-000
CONTENTS
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A List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits........................................................... vii

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Common Measures of the Implicit Personality.............. 6
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Theory of the Instrument for the Conditional
Reasoning Test for Aggression....................................... 21
Theory of the Instrument for the Conditional
Reasoning Test for Relative Motive Strength............... 39
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Motivation to Approach Versus Avoid:
Motives (Needs)............................................................. 44
Justification Mechanisms................................................ 48
Developing One’s Own Set of Justification
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Chapter 3. The Development of Conditional Reasoning Problems......... 69
Steps Involved in Building a Conditional Reasoning
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References................................................................................................ 211
Index........................................................................................................ 231
About the Authors................................................................................... 243
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Table 4.4. Factor Analysis of 22 Problems in the Conditional
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Table 4.5. Criterion and Hypotheses for 14 Validation Samples....... 124
Table 4.6. Uncorrected Validities for Scores on Conditional
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Table 4.7. Correlations Between Critical Intellectual Skills
and Scores on Conditional Reasoning Tests
for Aggression...................................................................... 138
Table 4.8. Relationships Between Gender and Scores
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Table 4.9. Relationships Between Race and Scores
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Figure 4.1. Strategy for Building a Nonarbitrary Metric for the
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Figure 4.2. Nonarbitrary or Optimum Score Based on Theft
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viii LISTOFTABLES, FIGURES, ANDEXHIBITS
Figure 5.1. Joint Effects of the Affiliation Motive and Extraversion
on Marriage and Divorce Across the Radcliffe
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Figure 5.2. Joint Effects of the Affiliation Motive and Extraversion
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Figure 5.3. Integrative Model for Aggression........................................ 173
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Exhibit 3.6. Illustrative Types of Distractors in Logical
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Exhibit 3.7. Informal Reasoning Based on Justification
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LISTOFTABLES, FIGURES, ANDEXHIBITS ix
Exhibit 3.8. Ideas for Conditional Reasoning Problems........................ 110
Exhibit 5.1. Integrative Model of Personality Assessment for
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Exhibit 6.1. Sample Conditional Reasoning Problem Designed
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Exhibit 6.2. Sample Conditional Reasoning Problem Designed
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Both authors would like to extend their sincere appreciation to Linda
Malnasi McCarter and Peter Pavilionis in the Books department at the
American Psychological Association. Their advice and guidance made this
book possible.
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