The stress interview.

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The stress interview was used in connection with tests given to police officers. A situation was created in which each individual, highly motivated to be successful because he believed that a job was at stake, was placed on the defensive and deliberately confused as to his progress on certain tests. The interview scores did not correlate highly with the results on the Otis intelligence test. There was a positive correlation with judgments made by persons well-acquainted with each candidate's field performance. The usual procedure by which conventional ratings are obtained inadvertently emphasizes behavior in non-stress situations. Conventional rating procedures appeared to be the least predictive with reference to the direction and extent of change in behavior from non-stress to stress situations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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