Situational judgment tests (SJTs) have become an increasingly important tool for predicting employee performance. In a recent study, Steven Stemler, associate professor of psychology, and two executives at pre-hire assessment firm Aspiring Minds asked current employees at several firms in India to review scenarios and then pick the “best” and “worst” choices from a set of options. The colleagues found a statistically significant correlation between job success and those who correctly identified the ‘worst’ answers to scenarios. Their results were surprising. "What we found in our research is that the ability to correctly identify the ‘worst’ response to a situation is a systematically different skill than the…