Orientations toward personnel selection
Differential reliance on appearance and personality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6206028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Snyder (0000-0002-3351-8215, University of Minnesota), Ellen Berscheid (0000-0002-6169-0370, University of Minnesota System), Alana Matwychuk (University of Minnesota System) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 972-979 |
| Publication date | 1988-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037//0022-3514.54.6.972 |
| OpenAlex | W4254216932 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 29 |
In two studies we examined the hypothesis that he psychological construct of self-monitoring would identify people who adopt distinctly different strategies in personnel selection. In both experiments, undergraduates examined information about the physical appearance and person liti s of two appli-cants for a specific job and then decided which applicant should receive ajob offer. In Study 1 information about the applicants ' physical attractiveness and job-appropriate dispositions was var-ied. In Study 2 job appropriateness of the applicants ' physical appearance and of their personalities were both varied. In each study, high self-monitoring individuals placed greater weight on informa-tion about physical appearance than did low self-monitoring individuals. By contrast, low self-moni-toring individuals put greater weight on information about personal dispositions than did high self-monitoring individuals. We discuss the implications f r understanding personnel selection as well as for decision making i interpersonal contexts. Some of the most important and consequential decisions in people's lives are made by other people. Who to befriend or avoid, marry or divorce, acquit or convict, hire or fire are all decisions about others with potentially significant conse
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Self-Monitoring at Work
Sex bias in the naming of stimulus persons
Self-monitoring and performance appraisal
Sources of individual differences in interviewer effectiveness
Self-monitoring and self-protective biases in use of consensus information to predict one's own behavior
Self‐Monitoring and Consumer Psychology
The Impact of Personality on Cognitive, Behavioral, and Affective Political Processes
Self-monitoring, self-selection, and prospective employment
Relationships Between Candidate Self-Monitoring, Perceived Personality, and Selection Interview Outcomes
Self-monitoring
About Face
How beauty works. Theoretical mechanisms and two empirical applications on students' evaluation of teaching
Public appearances, private realities
Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
Relative importance of applicant sex, attractiveness, and scholastic standing in evaluation of job applicant resumes.
Self-Monitoring Processes
Prototypes in Person Perception
Sexism and beautyism in personnel consultant decision making.
Sex and physical attractiveness of raters and applicants as determinants of resumé evaluations.
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Personality, Cognition and Social Interaction
Sexual Differences in Physical Attractiveness as a Determinant of Heterosexual Liking
On the nature of self-monitoring
Physical attractiveness and dating choice
Orientations toward relationships
Thinking about ourselves and others
An analysis of the Self-Monitoring Scale
Social perception and interpersonal behavior
Choosing friends as activity partners
Cognitive processes in the revision of stereotypic beliefs
Focusing on the exterior and the interior
Radiating beauty
Unfair discrimination in the employment interview
The Rating and Dating Complex
Work and Human Behavior
Campus Values in Mate Selection
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2025 (36) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |