Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to investigate the influence of applicants' justice beliefs (i.e. belief in a just world and belief in tests) on justice expectations with respect to a forthcoming application for the job of prison guard. Further, it aims to study the moderating role of...

This study investigated to what extent the cognitive worries of anxious persons impair test performance in both an educational and a personnel selection context. A distinction was made between two types of cognitive anxiety, namely Self-Referenced Anxiety, where oneself is held as the critical...

In two experiments, it was shown that the effectiveness of different tactics of self-promotion in personnel selection is affected by temporal distance. In Experiment 1, the use of a direct form of self-promotion was more successful when applying for immediate entry whereas an indirect form of...