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"The interviewer certainly can be nervous and it is possible that this could influence the interviewee in some way. Elsewhere in this discussion, I mentioned one of the "assumptions" of psychological assessment is that there are "various sources of error" that "are part of the assessment process" (Cohen & Swerdlik, 2010, p. 105) and that one potential source of error is the tester/interviewer."

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I had experience where an interviewer was certainly nervous. As a white female American who has interviewing with a Japanese male interviewer whose English was limited, he was so visible nervous about the language usage that he was shaking, ...

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