ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to gain further insight into the processes of person perception by integrating two streams of current psychological research, investigations of implicit personality theories of trait covariation and psychological studies of the employment interview. The results of this experiment are very encouraging, both to researchers interested in implicit personality theory and to personnel practitioners who have long argued for the utility of the employment interview. In sum, Rothestein and Jackson's and Jackson et al.' s studies clearly suggest that implicit personality theory plays a functional role in the employment interview. However, research thus far has indicated that a greater understanding of both implicit personality theory and decision making in the employment interview is acquired by integrating the investigation of these issues. Anderson, through his system of functional measurement, has claimed that such estimated scale values constitute an interval scale.
