What is Applicant Faking Behavior? A Review on the Current State of Theory and Modeling Techniques

Christoph Kiefer; Nils Benit

doi:10.5334/jeps.345

What is Applicant Faking Behavior? A Review on the Current State of Theory and Modeling Techniques

Journal of European Psychology Students

Volume 7 (2016): Issue 1

By: Christoph Kiefer and Nils Benit

Open Access

|Mar 2016

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