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  1. An ambulatory diary study of mobile device use, sleep, and positive mood.

    Article • International Journal of Stress Management, February 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  2. Is It Possible to Improve Test Takers’ Perceptions of Ability Tests by Providing an Explanation?

    Article • Journal of Personnel Psychology, January 2019, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  3. Do Attractiveness and Competition Influence Faking Intentions in Selection Interviews?

    Article • Journal of Personnel Psychology, October 2018, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  4. Tell Me Sweet Little Lies: How Does Faking in Interviews Affect Interview Scores and Interview Validity?

    Article • Journal of Business and Psychology, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  5. The relevance of sleep and circadian misalignment for procrastination among shift workers

    Article • Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, November 2017, Wiley

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  6. Selling and Smooth-Talking: Effects of Interviewer Impression Management from a Signaling Perspective

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2017, Frontiers

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  7. Individual Difference Variables and the Occurrence and Effectiveness of Faking Behavior in Interviews

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2017, Frontiers

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  8. A test of the generalizability of a recently suggested conceptual model for assessment center ratings

    Article • Human Performance, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  9. Situational judgment is needed in SJTs

    Article • Industrial and Organizational Psychology, March 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  10. How and why do interviewers try to make impressions on applicants? A qualitative study.

    Article • Journal of Applied Psychology, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  11. Transparency of Assessment Centers: Lower Criterion-related Validity but Greater Opportunity to Perform?

    Article • Personnel Psychology, June 2015, Wiley

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers, Pia V. Ingold

  12. Why Do Situational Interviews Predict Performance? Is it Saying How You Would Behave or Knowing How You Should Behave?

    Article • Journal of Business and Psychology, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers, Pia V. Ingold

  13. Guidelines and Ethical Considerations for Assessment Center Operations

    Article • Journal of Management, February 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  14. Arbeitsproben

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  15. Faking Good and Faking Bad Among Military Conscripts

    Article • Human Performance, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  16. Effects of Individual Differences on Applicant Perceptions of an Operational Assessment Center

    Article • International Journal of Selection and Assessment, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Hubert Annen, Professor Klaus G. Melchers, Tibor Szvircsev Tresch

  17. Why do Situational Interviews Predict Job Performance? The Role of Interviewees’ Ability to Identify Criteria

    Article • Journal of Business and Psychology, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers, Pia V. Ingold

  18. Shall we continue or stop disapproving of self-presentation? Evidence on impression management and faking in a selection context and their relation to job performance

    Article • European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers, Pia V. Ingold

  19. Are Improvements in Assessment Center Construct-Related Validity Paralleled by Improvements in Criterion-Related Validity?

    Article • Journal of Personnel Psychology, January 2014, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  20. Establishing the Cross-Situational Convergence of the Ability to Identify Criteria: Consistency and Prediction Across Similar and Dissimilar Assessment Center Exercises

    Article • Human Performance, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  21. Situation assessment as an ignored factor in the behavioral consistency paradigm underlying the validity of personnel selection procedures.

    Article • Journal of Applied Psychology, January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  22. Assessment of Situational Demands in a Selection Interview: Reflective style or sensitivity?

    Article • International Journal of Selection and Assessment, November 2012, Wiley

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  23. Responding to Personality Tests in a Selection Context: The Role of the Ability to Identify Criteria and the Ideal-Employee Factor

    Article • Human Performance, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  24. The Interactive Effect of Impression Motivation and Cognitive Schema on Self-Presentation in a Personality Inventory1

    Article • Journal of Applied Social Psychology, May 2012, Wiley

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  25. Der Beitrag sozialer Kompetenz zur Vorhersage beruflicher Leistung

    Article • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde, April 2012, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  26. EXERCISES AND DIMENSIONS ARE THE CURRENCY OF ASSESSMENT CENTERS

    Article • Personnel Psychology, May 2011, Wiley

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  27. A different look at why selection procedures work

    Article • Organizational Psychology Review, May 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers, Pia V. Ingold

  28. Job requirements for control room jobs in nuclear power plants

    Article • Safety Science, March 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  29. IS MORE STRUCTURE REALLY BETTER? A COMPARISON OF FRAME-OF-REFERENCE TRAINING AND DESCRIPTIVELY ANCHORED RATING SCALES TO IMPROVE INTERVIEWERS’ RATING QUALITY

    Article • Personnel Psychology, February 2011, Wiley

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  30. More than 2%! Incremental validity of an AC beyond GMA

    Article • January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Hubert Annen, Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  31. Officer Selection for the Swiss Armed Forces

    Article • Swiss Journal of Psychology, January 2010, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr Hubert Annen, Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  32. “I Know What You Want to Know”: The Impact of Interviewees' Ability to Identify Criteria on Interview Performance and Construct-Related Validity

    Article • Human Performance, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  33. Transparency in Structured Interviews: Consequences for Construct and Criterion-Related Validity

    Article • Human Performance, March 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  34. It Is Not Yet Time to Dismiss Dimensions in Assessment Centers

    Article • Industrial and Organizational Psychology, March 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  35. Representational flexibility and the challenge to elemental theories of learning: Response to commentaries

    Article • Behavioural Processes, March 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  36. Stimulus coding in human associative learning: Flexible representations of parts and wholes

    Article • Behavioural Processes, March 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  37. Comparing elemental and configural associative theories in human causal learning: A case for attention.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  38. Do within-dimension ratings in assessment centers really lead to improved construct validity?

    Article • Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie, October 2007, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  39. Candidates' Ability to Identify Criteria in Nontransparent Selection Procedures: Evidence from an assessment center and a structured interview

    Article • International Journal of Selection and Assessment, September 2007, Wiley

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  40. Extinction of conditioned inhibition through nonreinforced presentation of the inhibitor

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, August 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  41. The Comparator Theory Fails to Account for the Selective Role of Within-Compound Associations in Cue-Selection Effects

    Article • Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie), January 2006, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  42. Vom Ansehen der Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie

    Article • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde, April 2005, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  43. Prior experience can influence whether the whole is different from the sum of its parts

    Article • Learning and Motivation, February 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  44. The experimental task influences cue competition in human causal learning.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, January 2005, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  45. Past experience influences the processing of stimulus compounds in human Pavlovian conditioning

    Article • Learning and Motivation, August 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  46. Within-compound associations in retrospective revaluation and in direct learning: A challenge for comparator theory

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B, January 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  47. A Modified Version of the Unique Cue Theory Accounts for Olfactory Compound Processing in Honeybees

    Article • Learning & Memory, May 2003, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  48. The impact of reinforcement density on response differentiation in configural discrimination problems

    Article • Psychophysiology, September 2002, Wiley

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  49. Configural learning in human Pavlovian conditioning: acquisition of a biconditional discrimination

    Article • Biological Psychology, March 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  50. Evidence for the application of rules in Pavlovian electrodermal conditioning with humans

    Article • Biological Psychology, June 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  51. What is learned in patterning discriminations? Further tests of configural accounts of associative learning in human electrodermal conditioning

    Article • Biological Psychology, March 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  52. Evidence for stereotype threat in a simulated selection setting

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  53. Assessors' cognitive load impairs rating quality in AC group discussions

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  54. Do cognitive demands and assessors' expertise affect AC construct-related validity?

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  55. Stereotype threat in the real world: Evidence from employment testing

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  56. When and How Much Does Rater Training Improve Rating Accuracy?

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  57. A Similarity-Based Map of Assessment Center Dimensions

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  58. A Social Interaction at Their Core: Relevant Issues for Interviews

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers

  59. Faking Good and Faking Bad Among Army Conscripts

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Klaus G. Melchers