Thinking about Implicit Personality Research? We've Got Your Back (AOM PDW #243)
Saturday, August 6th, 2016
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Anaheim Convention Center, 209A
Dear Colleagues,
As you make your plans for the AOM annual meeting this year, please consider adding our PDW exploring the theory and measurement of implicit personality assessment with conditional reasoning. If you've thought about using conditional reasoning measures, want to know more about conditional reasoning and/or implicit personality, have tried to develop your own conditional reasoning test, or need assistance with any of those steps then this is the PDW for you. No preregistration is required and expertise levels from novice to master are welcome.
James M. LeBreton and Jeremy L. Schoen, Chairs.
PDW will be structured as follows:
PART I
In the first part of the workshop we will provide general information about the differences between the implicit and explicit aspects of human cognition as those aspects relate to personality. We will also present results of research using conditional reasoning. The following topics will be covered:
1. Differences between explicit cognition (e.g. self-views, conscious) and implicit cognition (e.g. biases, unconscious).
2. The concepts of biases in decision-making, heuristics in judgment, and defense mechanisms.
3. Why should management researchers care about the unconscious aspects of personality? There is a clear disconnect between management research using biases and heuristics (areas such as economics) and personality research.
4. Brief summary of findings from CR regarding the predictive validity of implicit personality in predicting important behavioral outcomes.
PART II
In the second part of the workshop we will discuss recent developments in conditional reasoning as it relates to the discovery, description, and measurement of Justification Mechanisms (JMs). JMs are a central part of all well-functioning conditional reasoning tests. Specifically, we will cover the following topics:
1. A full description of the JM concept:
2. A description of the process used to discover JMs
3. Writing conditional reasoning problems: the problems used to measure JMs.
PART III
The third part of the workshop is interactive. We will first poll the audience to try to understand the level of experience and expertise with the subject. If we have individuals who already understand the JM concept and have working JMs (i.e. advanced users) and individuals who do not have working JMs (i.e. novice users) we will then break into two groups. The following methods will be demonstrated via hands-on examples (as necessary within the groups):
1. We will begin with a partially formulated JM from an unpublished measure.
2. Ask members to list situations where the JM(s) developed in Step 1 might be active.
3. Select one or two of the situations listed in Step 2 for inductive reasoning item development.
4. Select one or two of the inductive reasoning items developed in Step 3 for conditional reasoning problem conversion.