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Valve Software is one of the videogaming industry’s most prominent and successful companies. It is responsible for some of videogaming’s most prominent games and game platforms, including Half-Life, Team Fortress, Counterstrike, Half-Life 2, Portal,...
New research by Guillory and Hancock ((Guillory, J., & Hancock, J. (2012). The Effect of Linkedin on Deception in Resumes Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2011.0389)) reveals that personal information provided on LinkedIn...
A recent article by Landers, Sackett and Tuzsinki ((Landers, R., Sackett, P., & Tuzinski, K. (2011). Retesting after initial failure, coaching rumors, and warnings against faking in online personality measures for selection. Journal of...
In recent article by Blackhurst, Congemi, Meyer and Schau ((Blackhurst, E., Congemi, P., Meyer, J. & Sachau, D. (2011). Should you hire BlazinWeedClown@Mail.Com? The Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, 49(2), 27-38.)) in The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, e-mail addresses...
In his 2008 book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell criticizes the traditional “top-down” selection method used by organizations hiring on the basis of cognitive ability (colloquially referred to as “intelligence”). By his argument, there is a...
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