Identifying, Defining, and Measuring Justification Mechanisms: The Implicit Biases Underlying Individual Differences

• DOI: 10.1177/0149206319889137
• Publication Date: 2019-12-04T09:28:32Z
• Authors: Jeremy L. Schoen; Justin A. DeSimone; Rustin D. Meyer; Katherine A. Schnure; James M. LeBreton
• Keywords: Organizational Behavior

Twenty years ago, conditional reasoning (CR) was presented as a technology for assessing the implicit aspects of personality. Although this assessment method has been lauded an advance organizational scholarship, relatively few CR tests have developed and validated. We argue that major impediment to broader implementation technique disproportional emphasis by researchers on measurement-related issues at expense better describing core theoretical processes underlie CR—namely, justification mechanisms (JMs). In effort rectify problem we (a) explain differences between explicit individual differences, (b) introduce key psychological mechanism associated with these conceptualized through (JMs), (c) describe how can identify JMs, (d) discuss JMs may be measured items. Our work is intended serve catalyst future initiatives refocusing attention underpinnings CR, thus enabling build more theoretically sound tests.