Topic
Personality Tests
22 published works
The Right Coast
A simple choice between two gorgeous photos reveals your personality – The Washington Post
The choice between vacationing at the beach or in the mountains might seem like a superficial one. However, there is a long history of people looking to natural environment to…
The Right Coast
IBM s Watson will analyze your personality – SlashGear
IBM s supercomputer Watson is trying its hand at discerning personalities, and it bases its guesses on text samples. A demonstration of the technology allows anyone to copy in their…
Employment Law Watch
Employers Using Personality Tests To Vet Applicants Need Cautious ‘Personalities’ of Their Own
By Sara A. Begley, Julia Trankiem, Sarah T. Hansel
With a growing number of employers using personality tests to vet job applicants, it is important for management to understand the pitfalls of these tests, including the potential for costly…
Media Law Prof Blog
Adding Up?
A Berkeley, California company called Five says it can tell your personality type by analyzing your Facebook posts. Are you an extrovert? Are you pleasant? The sort of person who…
Employment Law Matters
EEOC issues discussion points on permissible uses of “integrity testing.”
According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), “integrity testing” is a “specific type of personality test designed to assess an applicant's tendency to be honest, trustworthy, and dependable.”…
Employment Discrimination Report
Are Personality Tests Used In Hiring Discriminatory?
An interesting article published by ABC News Radio came to my attention concerning the use of personality tests used in hiring – are they discriminatory? Citing to a Wall…
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
Controversy Surrounds Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and Fake Bad Scale Tests
The most widely used personality test in the world, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) has recently caused concern and sparked feuds among scholars. The test, initially developed over 70…
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
Fake Bad Scale Discredited Once AgainFake Bad Scale Discredited Once Again
I recently read a new book entitled "MMPI-II Assessing Personality and Psychopathology (4th Edition) by Dr. John R. Graham. Dr. Graham played a major role in the development of the…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
blog personality type
By legalwriting
According to Typealyzer, a Swedish website that purports to analyze the Myers-Briggs personality type of a blog's author, we collectively add up to INTJ (Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging), or as…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Personality Tests – Beware the Disparate Impact
Although I've touched on the issue of personality tests before here and here, I was recently interviewed in the December 2007 issue of Law Office Administrator (published by Ardmore Publishing) about…