{"id":202053,"date":"2026-04-03T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/job-seekers-mask-their-emotions-and-act-more-analytical-when-evaluated-by-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:15:12","slug":"job-seekers-mask-their-emotions-and-act-more-analytical-when-evaluated-by-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/job-seekers-mask-their-emotions-and-act-more-analytical-when-evaluated-by-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Job seekers mask their emotions and act more analytical when evaluated by artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psypost.org\/job-seekers-mask-their-emotions-and-act-more-analytical-when-evaluated-by-artifi-2026-03-26\/\">Job seekers mask their emotions and act more analytical when evaluated by artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psypost.org\/job-seekers-mask-their-emotions-and-act-more-analytical-when-evaluated-by-artifi-2026-03-26\/\">https:\/\/www.psypost.org\/job-seekers-mask-their-emotions-and-act-more-analytical-when-evaluated-by-artifi-2026-03-26\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-03 18:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.psypost.org\">www.psypost.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Individuals modify their behavior when aware that an AI is evaluating them for job or college programs, aiming to appear more analytical and less emotional.<\/li>\n<li>This &#8220;AI assessment effect&#8221; can lead to inaccurate assessments, disrupting the selection process for important positions.<\/li>\n<li>With increasing transparency laws, candidates are often aware of AI involvement in hiring and admissions, influencing their self-presentation.<\/li>\n<li>Research conducted by Jonas Goergen and his team revealed that applicants alter their traits to emphasize logical and analytical aspects when they believe an AI is their evaluator.<\/li>\n<li>Experiments demonstrated that people downplay their intuitive side and exaggerate their logical traits under perceived machine evaluation to seem more suitable.<\/li>\n<li>This behavior could mislead organizations into inaccurately assessing candidates&#8217; true skills and competencies.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers suggested that employers should consider this effect to ensure fairer and more accurate evaluations when using AI for selection processes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job seekers mask their emotions and act more analytical when evaluated by artificial intelligence https:\/\/www.psypost.org\/job-seekers-mask-their-emotions-and-act-more-analytical-when-evaluated-by-artifi-2026-03-26\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.psypost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/artificial-intelligence.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-202053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202055,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202053\/revisions\/202055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}