Effects of Sophistication and Faking Sets on the Eysenck Personality Inventory

Abstract

Personality inventories, by their very nature, are particularly susceptible to faking. Past studies have shown that instructions to fake can distort responses to a personality inventory; however, validity scales have generally detected faking. Such studies have generally assumed that Ss were naive. When the effects of different faking sets with Ss of different degrees of sophistication were investigated using the Eysenck Personality Inventory the results indicate that Ss possessing even a minimum degree of sophistication can successfully fake on this inventory.