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Publication Date
2025
Document Type
Poster
Degree Type
Undergraduate
Department
Psychology
Mentor
Dr. Burak Ozkum
Mentor Department
Psychology
Abstract
One’s inherent trust in the perceived accuracy of personality test results may rely upon several culturally dependent variables of a population, including the need for cognition, skepticism, confirmation bias, pseudoscientific beliefs, and general self-awareness, which may be exhibited with several degrees of variance between cultures. The present study seeks to replicate the “Trust in Personality Test Results and Associated Factors” project conducted in a Turkish I/O Psychology workshop to discern cultural idiosyncrasies in their trust in personality testing, particularly between Turkey and the US. Participants (n = 250) responded to a personality inventory based on the MeyersBriggs Type Indicator framework, the NERIS Type Explorer or the “16Personalities Test”, before being randomly assigned to one of three conditions which determined the degree to which their MBTI type was accurate (accurate result, adjacent result, opposite result). Participants then responded to a form collecting data regarding their level of agreeableness regarding pseudoscientific beliefs. The present study seeks to determine if the results from the Turkish sample can be replicated within the US sample based upon potentially influential cultural variables between the two populations, and we expect response patterns to vary relative to the assigned condition (accurate result, high trust). We seek to explore two possible outcome explanations; If the Barnum effect, a variable influencing response patterns to be more agreeable to general descriptives is present, irrelevant of the accuracy of feedback, respondents will trust their results. Conversely, the trust of respondents will result from the accuracy of the feedback (no Barnum effect/well developed test). As the study is finalizing data collection, results are hitherto not available but will be for the symposium.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Sean; Cannon, Kara; Tampa, Lindsey; and Ozkum, Burak, "Trust in Personality Testing" (2025). University Research Symposium. 478.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/rsp_urs/478
