Scott Highhouse
Biographic Data
| ID | 6098461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Highhouse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Highhouse |
| SIGNATURE | HIGHHOUSE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Artificial intelligence and art
Improving Workplace Judgments by Reducing Noise
Some assert that noise (i.e., unwanted variance) is the most neglected yet most important source of error in judgment. We suggest that this problem was discovered nearly 100 years ago in the area of personnel selection and that a century of selection research has shown that noise can be demonstrably reduced by structuring the process (i.e., decomposing the component parts, agreeing on standards, and applying those standards consistently) and by a…
Culture versus other sources of variance in risk and benefit perceptions
To what extent do countries and people within countries vary in their perceptions about the risks and benefits of engaging in risky activities? And to what extent are these variations influenced by risk domains? We used generalizability theory to identify and quantify the variance components in perceived risk and benefit ratings that are attributable to differences between cultures, across raters within cultures, and across risk domains. Our resu…
Is risk propensity unique from the big five factors of personality? A meta-analytic investigation
A systematic comparison of three sadism measures and their ability to explain workplace mistreatment over and above the dark triad
Development and validation of the General Risk Propensity Scale (GRiPS)
Despite the widespread interest in understanding and identifying risk takers by psychologists, clinicians, and economists, the risk literature currently lacks consensus regarding the nature of risk taking and its measurement. Existing measures of risk taking are predominantly domain‐specific despite emerging support for risk taking as a domain‐general disposition. In the present paper, we examine the nature of risk taking as a domain‐general pers…
Structure of the Dospert
The Domain‐specific Risk‐taking scale was designed to assess risk taking in specific domains. This approach is unconventional in personality assessment but reflects conventional wisdom in the decision community that cross‐situational consistency in risk taking is more myth than reality. We applied bifactor analysis to a large sample ( n = 921) of responses to the Domain‐specific Risk Taking. Results showed that, in addition to domain‐specific fac…
Meta‐analytic Investigations of the Relation Between Intuition and Analysis
Over 50 years of research on cognitive style has converged on the importance of individual differences in use of intuition and analysis. This program of research is characterized, however, by two incompatible perspectives about the relation between intuition and analysis. The distinction concerns whether intuition and analysis are opposite poles of a single dimension or whether they are orthogonal constructs. Two studies report meta‐analytic inve…
A Snapshot in Time
This chapter aims to provide a big picture view of the field of industrial–organizational (I-O) psychology as it exists today. Major tensions in the field are examined, and compared with tensions that existed thirty years ago. Prominent I-O scholars provided their views on major issues in the field, including (a) a perceived need for increased focus on temporal and change processes, (b) a perceived need for more attention to the meaning of work i…
Designing Experiments That Generalize
Organizational research has relied too heavily on methods characterized by passive observation, likely because there is a widespread belief that experimental research has limited generalizability. However, this is often because researchers (and reviewers or editors) misunderstand the nature of generalizability and what it requires. This article reiterates the importance of experimental research for understanding organizational phenomena and separ…
Relation of job search and choice process with subsequent satisfaction
Measuring Attraction to Organizations
Organizational attractionmeasures are commonly used as surrogate assessments of organizational pursuit. Despite the range in content often encompassed by such instruments, no research has systematically examined the assumptions underlying their use. The authors address this issue by empirically distinguishing items assessing attractiveness, prestige, and behavioral intentions and by modeling their effects on organization pursuit. Undergraduates (…
Does matching up features mess up job choice? Boundary conditions on attribute‐salience effects
Research in decision making has suggested that the degree to which features of an option are shared versus unique influences preferences in a way that violates normative rules. The generalizability of these findings to job choice was investigated. Senior‐level, undergraduate job seekers ( N = 216) were presented with three jobs from which they were asked to choose one. Attributes for two of the jobs (A and B) remained invariant across conditions,…
Deciding to sell
Effects of upward accountability and rating purpose on peer‐rater inflation and delay
Procedural influences on peer-rater distortion and delay were investigated in a field experiment. Employees (N=123) of a business information firm were randomly assigned to conditions in a 2 (upward accountability versus no accountability) by 2 (administrative purpose versus research purpose) experimental design. Results revealed evidence for an accountability by purpose interaction on rater delay. Specifically, raters delayed rating their peers …
Effects of upward accountability and rating purpose on peer-rater inflation and delay
Procedural influences on peer-rater distortion and delay were investigated in a field experiment. Employees (N=123) of a business information firm were randomly assigned to conditions in a 2 (upward accountability versus no accountability) by 2 (administrative purpose versus research purpose) experimental design. Results revealed evidence for an accountability by purpose interaction on rater delay. Specifically, raters delayed rating their peers …
A verbal protocol analysis of choice under ambiguity
The Leniency Scale
Although the leniency scale was proposed as a method to measure a lenient tendency and has been advocated as a method for removing error from performance ratings and leader descriptions, there exists little research to support its use. This study was aimed at examining the efficacy of the leniency scale as a measure of a leniency disposition. A total of 135 participants under one or both of two instructional sets (describe your current instructor…
The Validity of the Learning Style Inventory 1985 as a Predictor of Cognitive Style and Occupational Preference
This study investigated the relationship between measures of cognitive style and occupational preference and learning modes as measured by Kolb's revised Learning Style Inventory 1985. The Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT), the Learning Style Inventory 1985 (LSI), and the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) were administered to 111 introductory psychology students. There were no significant correlations between the LSI and the GEFT. Correlatio…
Development and validation of the General Risk Propensity Scale (GRiPS)
Despite the widespread interest in understanding and identifying risk takers by psychologists, clinicians, and economists, the risk literature currently lacks consensus regarding the nature of risk taking and its measurement. Existing measures of risk taking are predominantly domain‐specific despite emerging support for risk taking as a domain‐general disposition. In the present paper, we examine the nature of risk taking as a domain‐general pers…
Structure of the Dospert
The Domain‐specific Risk‐taking scale was designed to assess risk taking in specific domains. This approach is unconventional in personality assessment but reflects conventional wisdom in the decision community that cross‐situational consistency in risk taking is more myth than reality. We applied bifactor analysis to a large sample ( n = 921) of responses to the Domain‐specific Risk Taking. Results showed that, in addition to domain‐specific fac…
Does matching up features mess up job choice? Boundary conditions on attribute‐salience effects
Research in decision making has suggested that the degree to which features of an option are shared versus unique influences preferences in a way that violates normative rules. The generalizability of these findings to job choice was investigated. Senior‐level, undergraduate job seekers ( N = 216) were presented with three jobs from which they were asked to choose one. Attributes for two of the jobs (A and B) remained invariant across conditions,…
Deciding to sell
Relation of job search and choice process with subsequent satisfaction
A systematic comparison of three sadism measures and their ability to explain workplace mistreatment over and above the dark triad
Meta‐analytic Investigations of the Relation Between Intuition and Analysis
Over 50 years of research on cognitive style has converged on the importance of individual differences in use of intuition and analysis. This program of research is characterized, however, by two incompatible perspectives about the relation between intuition and analysis. The distinction concerns whether intuition and analysis are opposite poles of a single dimension or whether they are orthogonal constructs. Two studies report meta‐analytic inve…
The Validity of the Learning Style Inventory 1985 as a Predictor of Cognitive Style and Occupational Preference
This study investigated the relationship between measures of cognitive style and occupational preference and learning modes as measured by Kolb's revised Learning Style Inventory 1985. The Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT), the Learning Style Inventory 1985 (LSI), and the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) were administered to 111 introductory psychology students. There were no significant correlations between the LSI and the GEFT. Correlatio…
The Leniency Scale
Although the leniency scale was proposed as a method to measure a lenient tendency and has been advocated as a method for removing error from performance ratings and leader descriptions, there exists little research to support its use. This study was aimed at examining the efficacy of the leniency scale as a measure of a leniency disposition. A total of 135 participants under one or both of two instructional sets (describe your current instructor…
A verbal protocol analysis of choice under ambiguity
Effects of upward accountability and rating purpose on peer‐rater inflation and delay
Procedural influences on peer-rater distortion and delay were investigated in a field experiment. Employees (N=123) of a business information firm were randomly assigned to conditions in a 2 (upward accountability versus no accountability) by 2 (administrative purpose versus research purpose) experimental design. Results revealed evidence for an accountability by purpose interaction on rater delay. Specifically, raters delayed rating their peers …
Effects of upward accountability and rating purpose on peer-rater inflation and delay
Procedural influences on peer-rater distortion and delay were investigated in a field experiment. Employees (N=123) of a business information firm were randomly assigned to conditions in a 2 (upward accountability versus no accountability) by 2 (administrative purpose versus research purpose) experimental design. Results revealed evidence for an accountability by purpose interaction on rater delay. Specifically, raters delayed rating their peers …
Deciding to sell
Does matching up features mess up job choice? Boundary conditions on attribute‐salience effects
Research in decision making has suggested that the degree to which features of an option are shared versus unique influences preferences in a way that violates normative rules. The generalizability of these findings to job choice was investigated. Senior‐level, undergraduate job seekers ( N = 216) were presented with three jobs from which they were asked to choose one. Attributes for two of the jobs (A and B) remained invariant across conditions,…
Measuring Attraction to Organizations
Organizational attractionmeasures are commonly used as surrogate assessments of organizational pursuit. Despite the range in content often encompassed by such instruments, no research has systematically examined the assumptions underlying their use. The authors address this issue by empirically distinguishing items assessing attractiveness, prestige, and behavioral intentions and by modeling their effects on organization pursuit. Undergraduates (…
Relation of job search and choice process with subsequent satisfaction
Designing Experiments That Generalize
Organizational research has relied too heavily on methods characterized by passive observation, likely because there is a widespread belief that experimental research has limited generalizability. However, this is often because researchers (and reviewers or editors) misunderstand the nature of generalizability and what it requires. This article reiterates the importance of experimental research for understanding organizational phenomena and separ…
A Snapshot in Time
This chapter aims to provide a big picture view of the field of industrial–organizational (I-O) psychology as it exists today. Major tensions in the field are examined, and compared with tensions that existed thirty years ago. Prominent I-O scholars provided their views on major issues in the field, including (a) a perceived need for increased focus on temporal and change processes, (b) a perceived need for more attention to the meaning of work i…
Meta‐analytic Investigations of the Relation Between Intuition and Analysis
Over 50 years of research on cognitive style has converged on the importance of individual differences in use of intuition and analysis. This program of research is characterized, however, by two incompatible perspectives about the relation between intuition and analysis. The distinction concerns whether intuition and analysis are opposite poles of a single dimension or whether they are orthogonal constructs. Two studies report meta‐analytic inve…
Structure of the Dospert
The Domain‐specific Risk‐taking scale was designed to assess risk taking in specific domains. This approach is unconventional in personality assessment but reflects conventional wisdom in the decision community that cross‐situational consistency in risk taking is more myth than reality. We applied bifactor analysis to a large sample ( n = 921) of responses to the Domain‐specific Risk Taking. Results showed that, in addition to domain‐specific fac…
Development and validation of the General Risk Propensity Scale (GRiPS)
Despite the widespread interest in understanding and identifying risk takers by psychologists, clinicians, and economists, the risk literature currently lacks consensus regarding the nature of risk taking and its measurement. Existing measures of risk taking are predominantly domain‐specific despite emerging support for risk taking as a domain‐general disposition. In the present paper, we examine the nature of risk taking as a domain‐general pers…
A systematic comparison of three sadism measures and their ability to explain workplace mistreatment over and above the dark triad
Improving Workplace Judgments by Reducing Noise
Some assert that noise (i.e., unwanted variance) is the most neglected yet most important source of error in judgment. We suggest that this problem was discovered nearly 100 years ago in the area of personnel selection and that a century of selection research has shown that noise can be demonstrably reduced by structuring the process (i.e., decomposing the component parts, agreeing on standards, and applying those standards consistently) and by a…
Culture versus other sources of variance in risk and benefit perceptions
To what extent do countries and people within countries vary in their perceptions about the risks and benefits of engaging in risky activities? And to what extent are these variations influenced by risk domains? We used generalizability theory to identify and quantify the variance components in perceived risk and benefit ratings that are attributable to differences between cultures, across raters within cultures, and across risk domains. Our resu…
Is risk propensity unique from the big five factors of personality? A meta-analytic investigation
Artificial intelligence and art
Psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Personality (5 works) · Personality Traits and Psychology (5 works)