Publikationen / Publications Dr. Klaus G. Melchers

Ein Teil meiner Publikationen ist unter meinem früheren Nachnamen (Lober) erschienen.

Wilhelmy, A., Kleinmann, M., Melchers, K.G., and Götz, M. (2017). Selling and smooth-talking: Effects of interviewer impression management from a signaling perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00740

Melchers, K. G., & Kleinmann, M. (in press). Why situational judgment is a missing component in the theory of SJTs. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice. 9, 29-34. Doi:10.1017/iop.2015.111

Ingold, P. V., Kleinmann, M., König, C. J., & Melchers, K. G. (2016). Transparency of assessment centers: Lower criterion-related validity but greater opportunity to perform? Personnel Psychology, 69, 467-497. doi:10.1111/peps.12105  (PDF)

Oostrom, J. K., Melchers, K. G., Ingold, P. V., & Kleinmann, M. (2016). Why do situational interviews predict performance: Is it saying how you would behave or knowing how you should behave? Journal of Business and Psychology, 31, 279-291. doi:10.1007/s10869-015-9410-0 (PDF)

Melchers, K. G., Ingold, P. V., Wilhelmy, A., & Kleinmann, M. (2015). Beyond validity: Shedding light on the social situation in employment interviews. In I. Nikolaou & J. K. Oostrom (Eds.), Employee Recruitment, Selection, and Assessment: Contemporary Issues for Theory and Practice (pp. 174-171): Psychology Press.

Merkulova, N., Melchers, K. G., Kleinmann, M., Annen, H., & Szvircsev Tresch, T. (2014). A test of the generalizability of a recently suggested conceptual model for assessment center ratings. Human Performance. 29, 226-250. Doi:10.1080/08959285.2016.1160093

Melchers, K. G., Bösser, D., Hartstein, T., & Kleinmann, M. (in press). Assessment of situational demands in a selection interview: Reflective style or sensitivity? International Journal of Selection and Assessment. (PDF)

Klehe, U.-C., Kleinmann, M., Hartstein, T., Melchers, K. G., König, C. J., Heslin, P., & Lievens, F. (in press). Responding to personality tests in a selection context: The role of the ability to identify criteria and the ideal-employee factor. Human Performance. (PDF)

Jansen, A., König, C. J., Kleinmann, M., & Melchers, K. G. (2012). The interactive effect of impression motivation and cognitive schema on self-presentation in a personality inventory. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 42, 1932-1957.

Jansen, A., Melchers, K.G., & Kleinmann, M. (2012). Der Beitrag sozialer Kompetenz zur Vorhersage beruflicher Leistung. Inkrementelle Validität sozialer Kompetenz gegenüber der Leistung im Assessment Center und im Interview. Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, 56, 87-97.

Hoffman, B. J., Melchers, K. G., Blair, C. A., Kleinmann, M., & Ladd, R. T. (2011). Exercises AND dimensions are the currency of assessment centers. Personnel Psychology, 64, 351-395.

Kleinmann, M., Ingold, P. V., Lievens, F., Jansen, A., Melchers, K. G., & König, C. J. (2011). A different look at why selection procedures work: The role of candidates’ ability to identify criteria. Organizational Psychology Review, 1, 128-146. (PDF)

Melchers, K. G., Lienhardt, N., von Aarburg, M., & Kleinmann, M. (2011). Is more structure really better? A comparison of frame-of-reference training and descriptively anchored rating scales to improve interviewers' rating quality. Personnel Psychology, 64, 53-87.

Schumacher, S., Kleinmann, M., & Melchers, K. G. (2011). Job requirements for control room jobs in nuclear power plants. Safety Science, 49, 394-405.

Melchers, K. G., Kleinmann, M., & Prinz, M. (2010). Do assessors have too much on their plates? Rating quality and the number of simultaneously observed candidates in assessment center group discussions. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 18, 329-341.

Höft, S. & Melchers, K. G. (2010). Training von AC-Beobachtern: Worauf kommt es an? Wirtschaftspsychologie, 12, 32-40.

Melchers, K. G., & Annen, H. (2010). Officer selection for the Swiss army: An evaluation of validity and fairness issues. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 69, 105-115.

Gerber, M., & Melchers, K. (2010). Ohne gutes Assessorenteam geht das Assessment Centern baden. HR Toda y, 12(4), 61.

Melchers, K. G., Klehe, U.-C., Richter, G. M., Kleinmann, M., König, C. J., & Lievens, F. (2009). “I know what you want to know”: The impact of interviewees’ ability to identify criteria on interview performance and construct-related validity. Human Performance, 22, 355-374.

Klehe, U.-C., König, C. J., Richter, G. M., Kleinmann, M., & Melchers, K. G. (2008). Transparency in structured interviews: Consequences for construct and criterion-related validity. Human Performanc e, 21, 107-137. 

Lachnit, H., Schultheis, H., König, S., Üngör, M., & Melchers, K. G. (2008). Comparing elemental and configural associative theories in human causal learning: A case for attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes,  34 , 303-313.

Melchers, K. G., & König, C. J. (2008). It is not yet time to dismiss dimensions in assessment centers. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practic e, 1, 125-127.

Melchers, K. G., Shanks, D. R., & Lachnit, H. (2008). Stimulus coding in human causal learning: Flexible representations of parts and wholes. Behavioural Processes, 77 , 413-427.

Shanks, D. R., Lachnit, H., & Melchers, K. G. (2008). Representational flexibility and the challenge to elemental theories of learning: Response to commentaries. Behavioural Processes, 77, 451-453.

Melchers, K. G., Henggeler, C., & Kleinmann, M. (2007). Do within-dimension ratings in assessment centers really lead to improved construct validity? A meta-analytic reassessment. Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie , 6, 141-149.

König, C. J., Melchers, K. G., Richter, G. M., Kleinmann, M., & Klehe, U.-C. (2007). The ability to identify criteria in nontransparent selection procedures: Evidence from an assessment center and a structured interview. International Journal of Selection and Assessment , 15, 283-292.

König, C. J., Melchers, K. G., Kleinmann, M., Richter, G. M. & Klehe, U.-C. (2006). The relationship between the ability to identify evaluation criteria and integrity test scores. Psychology Science , 48, 369-377.

Melchers, K. G., Lachnit, H., & Shanks, D. R. (2006). The comparator theory fails to account for the selective role of within-compound associations in cue selection effects. Experimental Psychology , 53, 316-320.

Melchers, K. G., Wolff, S., & Lachnit, H. (2006). Extinction of conditioned inhibition through nonreinforced presentation of the inhibitor. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 662-667.

Melchers, K. G., Üngör, M., & Lachnit, H. (2005). The experimental task influences cue competition in human causal learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, 477-483.

König, K. J., & Melchers, K. G. (2005). Vom Ansehen der Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie: Ein Kommentar zu von Rosenstiel (2004). Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, 49, 102-104.

Melchers, K. G., Lachnit, H., Üngör, M., & Shanks, D. R. (2005). Prior experience can influence whether the whole is different from the sum of its parts. Learning and Motivation, 36, 20-41. (Asymptotic predictions of the Pearce model for the learning tasks from this paper, PDF)

Melchers, K. G., Kleinmann, M., Richter, G. M., König, C. J., & Klehe, U.-C. (2004). Messen Einstellungsinterviews das, was sie messen sollen? Zur Bedeutung der Bewerberkognitionen über bewertetes Verhalten. Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie, 3, 159-169.

Melchers, K. G., Lachnit, H., & Shanks, D. R. (2004). Past experience influences the processing of stimulus compounds in human Pavlovian conditioning. Learning and Motivation, 35, 167-188.

Melchers, K. G., Lachnit, H., & Shanks, D. R. (2004). Within-compound associations in retrospective revaluation and in direct learning: A challenge for comparator theory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57B, 25-53.

Deisig, N., Lachnit, H., Sandoz, J.-C., Lober, K., & Giurfa, M. (2003). A modified version of the unique-cue theory accounts for olfactory compound processing in honey-bees. Learning & Memory, 10, 199-208.

Lachnit, H., Lober, K., Reinhard, G., & Giurfa, M. (2002). The impact of reinforcement density on response differentiation in configural discrimination problems. Psychophysiology, 39, 650-656.

Lober, K., & Lachnit, H. (2002). Configural learning in human Pavlovian conditioning: Acquisition of a biconditional discrimination. Biological Psychology, 59, 163-168.

Lachnit, H., Lober, K., Reinhard, G., & Kinder, A. (2001). Evidence for the application of rules in Pavlovian electrodermal conditioning with humans. Biological Psychology, 56, 151-166.

Lachnit, H. & Lober, K. (2001). What is learned in patterning discriminations? Further tests of configural accounts of associative learning in human electrodermal conditioning. Biological Psychology, 56, 45-61.

Lober, K. & Shanks, D. R. (2000). Is causal induction based on causal power? Critique of Cheng (1997). Psychological Review, 107, 195-212.

Melchers, K. G., Ingold, P. V., Wilhelmy, A., & Kleinmann, M. (2015). Beyond validity: Shedding light on the social situation in employment interviews. In I. Nikolaou & J. K. Oostrom (Eds.), Employee Recruitment, Selection, and Assessment: Contemporary Issues for Theory and Practice (pp. 174-171): Psychology Press

Melchers, K. G., Wirz, A., & Kleinmann, M. (2012). Dimensions AND exercises: Theoretical background of mixed-model assessment centers. In D. J. R. Jackson, C. E. Lance, & B. J. Hoffman (Eds.), The psychology of assessment centers (pp. 237-254). New York: Routledge.

Kleinmann, M., Melchers, K. G., & König, C. J. (2011). Soziale Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit in der Personal- und Managementdiagnostik. In P. Gelléri & C. Winter (Hrsg.), Personalpsychologische Diagnostik als Beitrag zu Berufs- und Unternehmenserfolg (S. 121-137). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Melchers, K. G., & Kleinmann, M. (2007). Beurteilungsakkuratheit und Beurteilertraining. In H. Schuler & K. Sonntag (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie (S. 561-566). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Kleinmann, M., König, C. J., & Melchers, K. G. (2007). Organisationsdiagnose. In H. Schuler & K. Sonntag (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie (S. 729-736). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Kleinmann, M., Melchers, K. G., König, C. J., & Klehe, U.-C. (2007). Transparenz der Anforderungsdimensionen: Ein Moderator der Konstrukt- und Kriteriumsvalidität des Assessment Centers. In H. Schuler (Hrsg.), Assessment Center zur Potenzialanalyse (S. 70-80). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Melchers, K. G., & König, C. J. (2004). Wie effektiv sind Interventionen zur Verbesserung des persönlichen Zeitmanagements? In W. Bungard, B. Koop, & C. Liebig (Hrsg.), Psychologie und Wirtschaft leben: Aktuelle Themen der Wirtschaftspsychologie in Forschung und Praxis (S. 178-183). München: Hampp.