Source-monitoring training: Toward reducing rater expectancy effects in behavioral measurement

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Martell, RF; Evans, DP
• 署名单位: Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.90.5.956
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 956-963
• 关键词: behavior measurement; performance appraisal; source monitoring; performance-cue bias; rater expectations

摘要

The authors developed a source-monitoring procedure to reduce the biasing effects of rater expectations on behavioral measurement. Study participants (N = 224) were given positive or negative information regarding the performance of a group and, after observing the group, were assigned to a source-monitoring or control condition. Raters in the source-monitoring condition were instructed to report only behaviors that evoked detailed memories (remember judgments) and to avoid reporting behaviors based on feelings of familiarity (know judgments). Results revealed that controlling raters' response strategy reduced (and often eliminated) the biasing effects of performance expectations. These findings advance our understanding of the performance-cue bias and offer a potentially useful technique for decreasing rater bias.