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Social Desirability and Self-Reports: Testing Models of Socially Desirable Responding

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2004
The present research investigated the cognitive processes involved in responding to self-report items under varying conditions of social desirability. Participants in three experiments judged the extent to which a set of items (personality traits in Experiments 1 and 2; behaviors in Experiment 3) described them under instructions that either increased ...
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Social Facilitation and Social Desirability

Psychological Reports, 1980
This study tested the hypothesis that arousal during initial interpersonal encounters is correlated with the individual's need for social approval. A Pearson product-moment correlation of .48 confirmed the hypothesis for 33 college men.
W. Clifton Adams, Michael J. Beatty, Ralph R. Behnke   +2 more
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A children's social desirability questionnaire.

Journal of Consulting Psychology, 1965
A Children's Social Desirability (CSD) questionnaire was constructed and administered to 956 Ss in Grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12. A direct question ("yes-no") form of the scale was presented to children in the 3rd, 4th, and Sth grades in individual testing sessions, and a true-false form was given older Ss in group sessions.
V C, CRANDALL, V J, CRANDALL, W, KATKOVSKY   +2 more
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Social Desirability and Marital Happiness

Psychological Reports, 1967
Data from a study by Dymond (1954) which showed personality differences between groups of happily and unhappily married couples are reanalyzed in terms of social desirability (SD). The happy and unhappy groups are shown to have mean rates of SD responding of .73 and .46, respectively ( t = 12.095, p < .0001, df = 14).
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Psychological Androgyny and Social Desirability

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1982
The concept of psychological androgyny, because of its implications for sex roles, social change, and human development, is presently of special theoretical interest. Psychologically androgynous persons, as identified by the Bern Sex Role Inventory (BSRI), score higher on both its femininity and masculinity scales.
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Social Position, Social Desirability and Self-Esteem

Psychological Reports, 1970
Welfare clients occupy a position of low desirability, whereas college students, by reason of familial ties or prospective future contribution, occupy a position of high desirability. Significant differences were obtained between these two groups on self-esteem and length of time on welfare was a significant factor in welfare clients' self-esteem.
G, Schwendiman, K S, Larsen, F, Dunn
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Age Differences in Social Desirability

Psychological Reports, 1995
To examine the differences between 162 adolescents' and 118 adults' scores on the Eysenck Personality Inventory 64 boys ( M age = 20 yr.), 94 girls ( M age = 18.9 yr.), 78 women ( M age = 29 yr.), and 40 men ( M age = 28.8 yr.) from Umtata and the vicinity in Transkei, South Africa were tested.
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Social Desirabilities Among Measures of Social Desirability

Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1966
Bernard Spilka, John Horn, Leonard Langenderfer   +2 more
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Social desirability and individual conceptions of the desirable.

The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1963
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On Acquiescence and Social Desirability

The Journal of General Psychology, 1971
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