Behavior-Based Assessment in Psychology: Going Beyond Self-report in the Personality, Affective, Motivation, and Social Domains (Psychological Assessment - Science and Practice). This item is unavailable.Behavior-Based Assessment in Psychology: Going Beyond Self-report in the Personality, Affective, Motivation, and Social Domains (Psychological Assessment - Science and Practice)

Traditional self-reports can be an unsufficiant source of information about personality, attitudes, affect, and motivation. What are the alternatives? This first volume in the authoritative series Psychological Assessment – Science and Practice discusses the most influential, state-of-the-art forms of assessment that can take us beyond self-report. Leading scholars from various countries describe the theoretical background and psychometric properties of alternatives to self-report, including behavior-based assessment, observational methods, innovative computerized procedures, indirect assessments, projective techniques, and narrative reports. They also look at the validity and practical application of such forms of assessment in domains as diverse as health, forensic, clinical, and consumer psychology.

Tuulia M. Ortner, PhD, has been head of the Department of Psychological Assessment at the University of Salzburg (Austria) since 2012. She started working on objective personality tests more than 15 years ago at the University of Vienna (Austria), and continued her research at the Free University of Berlin (Germany). She is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Psychological Assessment. Her current research includes examining the validity of behavior-based tests and their convergence with other measures.


Fons J.R. van de Vijver, PhD, is Professor of Cross-cultural Psychology at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and holds honorary positions at North-West University (South Africa) and the University of Queensland (Australia). He has published widely on assessment issues, notably in the area of cross-cultural psychology, and also serves on the Executive Committee of the European Association of Psychological Assessment.