Blar i BI Open på forfatter "Larsen, Kai Rune"
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A new approach to psychological measures in leadership research
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune; Martinsen, Øyvind Lund; Bong, Chih How (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Is survey data a source of new information, or could surveys just be begging their questions? The authors of this opinion piece suspect that survey data in leadership research do not reflect attitudes to workplace phenomena. ... -
Culture blind leadership research: How semantically determined survey data may fail to detect cultural differences
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Likert scale surveys are frequently used in cross-cultural studies on leadership. Recent publications using digital text algorithms raise doubt about the source of variation in statistics from such studies to the extent ... -
Editorial: Semantic Algorithms in the Assessment of Attitudes and Personality
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune; Martinsen, Øyvind Lund; Nimon, Kim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021) -
Overlapping semantics of leadership and heroism: expectations of omnipotence, identification with ideal leaders and disappointment in real managers
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)People may confuse leadership with heroism due to the semantic overlap between their descriptions. This may explain some facets of fascination with leadership and obstructions to differentiated viewpoints of leadership as ... -
Predicting survey responses: How and why semantics shape survey statistics on organizational behaviour
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune; Martinsen, Øyvind Lund; Bong, Chih How (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Some disciplines in the social sciences rely heavily on collecting survey responses to detect empirical relationships among variables. We explored whether these relationships were a priori predictable from the semantic ... -
The Priest, the Sex Worker, and the CEO: Measuring Motivation by Job Type
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune; Nimon, Kim; Hovland, Christiane V.; Arnesen, Merethe (Others, 2020)This study uses latent semantic analysis (LSA) to explore how prevalent measures of motivation are interpreted across very diverse job types. Building on the Semantic Theory of Survey Response (STSR), we calculate “semantic ... -
Respondent Robotics: Simulating responses to Likert-scale survey items
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune; Martinsen, Øyvind Lund (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The semantic theory of survey responses (STSR) proposes that the prime source of statistical covariance in survey data is the degree of semantic similarity (overlap of meaning) among the items of the survey. Because semantic ... -
Semantic algorithms can detect how media language shapes survey responses in organizational behaviour
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune; Martinsen, Øyvind L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Research on sensemaking in organisations and on linguistic relativity suggests that speakers of the same language mayusethis language in different ways to construct social realities at work. We apply a semantic theory of ... -
The failing measurement of attitudes: How semantic determinants of individual survey responses come to replace measures of attitude strength.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune; Martinsen, Øyvind L.; Egeland, Thore (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The traditional understanding of data from Likert scales is that the quantifications involved result from measures of attitude strength. Applying a recently proposed semantic theory of survey response (STSR), we claim that ...