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Research article summary:
The over-claiming technique: measuring self-enhancement independent of ability.
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Over-claiming is a concrete operalization of self-enhancement based on respondents ratings of their knowledge of various persons, events, products, and so on. Because 20% of the items are nonexistent, responses can be analyzed with signal detection ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2003Apr
in Journal: J Pers Soc Psychol
(Language : eng)
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2003 Apr;84(4):890-904
The over-claiming technique: measuring self-enhancement independent of ability.
Paulhus DL, Harms PD, Bruce MN, Lysy DC
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. dpaulhus@psych.ubc.ca
Over-claiming is a concrete operalization of self-enhancement based on respondents' ratings of their knowledge of various persons, events, products, and so on. Because 20% of the items are nonexistent, responses can be analyzed with signal detection formulas to index both response bias (over-claiming) and accuracy (knowledge). Study 1 demonstrated convergence of over-claiming with alternative measures of self-enhancement but independence from cognitive ability. In Studies 2-3, the validity of the over-claiming index held even when respondents were (a) warned about the foils or (b) asked to fake good. Study 3 also showed the utility of the over-claiming index for diagnosing faking. In Study 4, the over-claiming technique was applied to the debate over the adaptive value of positive illusions.
PMID : 12703655 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
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| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| Delroy L | Paulhus | DL |
| P D | Harms | PD |
| M Nadine | Bruce | MN |
| Daria C | Lysy | DC |
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. dpaulhus@psych.ubc.ca
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