TY - JOUR
AU - Chao, Georgia T.
AB - The results of numerous social perception studies have led researchers to conclude that raters' implicit cognitive schemata regarding trait and behavior covariance may play a crucial role in the rating judgment process.  Cooper (1981a,  1981b)proposed one such cognitive schema, semantic conceptual similarity, as a key source of halo error in job performance ratings but was unable to reproduce the results of previous social perception research (e.g.,  Shweder, 1975). This study employed baseball players as target ratees to examine the effects of job and ratee knowledge on the relations of raters' conceptual similarity schemata with rating and true score covariance. The results were consistent with the systematic distortion hypothesis (Shweder, 1975): The association between conceptual similarity and rating covariance was significantly greater when raters lacked sufficient job and/or ratee knowledge. Moreover, the degree of halo was also significantly greater when raters lacked relevant job and ratee knowledge. Future research directions and the advantages of using objective measures of actual performance as true score estimates in the study of rater cognitive processes are discussed.
TI - Job Knowledge, Ratee Familiarity, Conceptual Similarity and Halo Error: An Exploration
JF - Journal of Applied Psychology
DO - 10.1037/0021-9010.71.1.45
DA - 1986-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/job-knowledge-ratee-familiarity-conceptual-similarity-and-halo-error-7qAvtAG9xu
SP - 45
EP - 49
VL - 71
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -