title: "Be Cool!": Emotional costs of hiding feelings in a job interview
creator: Sieverding, Monika
subject: ddc-150
subject: 150 Psychology
description: The goal of this research was to study display rules and emotional suppression in an employment interview. Participants, 74 graduating university students, were told that their videotaped performance in a simulated job interview would be evaluated by personnel experts. In a post-interview questionnaire, participants were asked about  the display rules influencing their behavior in the interview. They were also asked whether they had tried to suppress or hide (negative) emotions during the interview.  More men than women stated that they had tried to hide or suppress their feelings; these participants were classified as (emotion) suppressors. Participants who stated that they  had not tried to hide or suppress their feelings during the interview were classified as nonsuppressors. The validity of self-reported suppression was supported by the external  evaluations of two judges, who observed less nonverbal expressiveness (hand to head movements) in suppressors of both sexes and less anxiety in female suppressors.  Suppressors were evaluated as more competent than nonsuppressors. In women, but not in men, emotional suppression was associated with increased self-reports of  depressed state in the post-interview questionnaire.
publisher: Blackwell
date: 2009-12
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19706/1/Sieverding_emotional_costs_2009.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00019706
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-197063
identifier:   Sieverding, Monika  (2009) "Be Cool!": Emotional costs of hiding feelings in a job interview.  International journal of selection and assessment, 17 (4).   ISSN 0965-075X     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19706/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng