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THE INFLUENCE OF ASSESSEE PERFORMANCE VARIATION ON ASSESSORS’JUDGMENTS
Author(s) -
GAUGLER BARBARA B.,
RUDOLPH AMY S.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1992.tb00845.x
Subject(s) - variation (astronomy) , psychology , contrast (vision) , statistics , social psychology , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science , physics , astrophysics
Assessors evaluated assessees’performances in one of three performance conditions in an assessment center simulation: a consistent performance condition, a within‐assessee performance variation condition, or a between‐assessee performance variation condition. Contrast effects influenced ratings of assessees when there was variation in performance within assessees. For each assessee, the low target performance was rated lower when the assessee's prior performance had been dissimilar (high) than when the assessee's prior performance had been similar (low). Contrast effects also infiuenced assessors’ratings of the target assessee when there was variation in performance among assessees. The low performing target assessee was rated significantly lower when he was evaluated with two high performers than when he was evaluated with two low performers. In addition, ratings obtained when there was performance variation among assessees were more accurate than those obtained when there was no performance variation, suggesting that under some circumstances contrast effects may not lead to inferior judgments.