Stimmung und Kategorisierung: Zum Einfluß emotionaler Zustände auf berufseignungsdiagnostische Urteilsprozesse
Third party funded individual grant
Start date : 01.01.1997
End date : 31.12.1999
Project details
Short description
Job aptitude diagnostic judgements about individuals serve primarily selection and placement purposes and can be described as categorisation processes (e.g. "suitable" vs. "unsuitable"). n the research project, findings from basic social psychological research on mood-dependent changes in the cognitive flexibility of individuals were applied to the field of job aptitude diagnostics. The basic assumption is that assessors in positive moods are generally more flexible in categorising target persons than those in negative moods, whereby this leads to categorisations of varying breadth (e.g. number of target persons assessed as "suitable" vs. "unsuitable") depending on the various objectives of the assessor.
Scientific Abstract
Job aptitude diagnostic judgements about persons serve primarily selection and placement purposes and can be described as categorisation processes (e.g. "suitable" vs. "not suitable"). The last few decades have shown that the validity of diagnostic judgements on occupational aptitude, as they result in particular from the widespread unstructured interviews with applicants, is comparatively low. One explanation for this in the literature is the emotional state of the judge. In this research project, findings from basic social-psychological research on mood-dependent changes in the cognitive flexibility of individuals were applied to the field of vocational aptitude diagnostics. The basic assumption is that assessors in positive moods are generally more flexible in categorising target persons than those in negative moods, whereby this leads to categorisations of varying breadth (e.g. number of target persons assessed as "suitable" vs. "unsuitable") depending on the various objectives of the assessor.
