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Balancing anxiety and social desire [PDF]
Persistent negative emotional states, such as anxiety, suppress social behavior and vice versa. A new report identifies a novel neural circuit that generates persistent anxiety states and describes how competing excitatory and inhibitory components of this circuit battle to pattern social behavior.
Dakota Blackman, Annegret L. Falkner
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Controlling social desirability bias: An experimental investigation of the extended crosswise model. [PDF]
Indirect questioning techniques such as the crosswise model aim to control for socially desirable responding in surveys on sensitive personal attributes.
Meisters J, Hoffmann A, Musch J.
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Social Desirability of Earnings Tests [PDF]
Abstract In many countries, pension systems involve some form of earnings test; i.e. an individual’s benefits are reduced if he has labor income. This paper examines whether or not such earnings tests emerge when pension system and income tax are optimally designed.
Cremer, Helmuth +2 more
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Social Desirability in Spouse Ratings [PDF]
Whether or not socially desirable responding is a cause for concern in personality assessment has long been debated. For many researchers, McCrae and Costa laid the issue to rest when they showed that correcting for socially desirable responding in self-reports did not improve the agreement with spouse ratings on the Neuroticism, Extraversion, and ...
Vésteinsdóttir, Vaka +4 more
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Background Socially desirable responding is a potentially relevant issue in older adults and can be evaluated with the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MCSDS).
Paola Nicolini +5 more
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CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL DESIRABILITY [PDF]
: In the African context where cultural, media, and commercial dynamics are deeply intertwined, this article explores the role of advertising songs in shaping social desirability in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
KABONGO Ibanda Evariste
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Study of Urban Spatial Inequality in Tehran (1996 to 2011) [PDF]
This research examines the urban spatial inequality in Tehran. For thispurpose, distribution of economic, social and space desirability indices andthe relationships among them were studied.
Gholamreza Latifi, Mojdeh Babagoli
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Worry and social desirability: Opposite relationships for socio-political and social-evaluation worries [PDF]
The present article investigates the relationship between social desirability and worry. In particular, it addresses the question of whether socio-political worries (i.e.
Stöber, Joachim, Wolfradt, U.
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Social desirability is a tendency to respond to items in a socially acceptable way. It can bias results and is a threat to the validity of the measure.
Patrik Havan, Michal Kohút
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Centrality in children's best friend networks: the role of social behaviour [PDF]
Centrality is an indicator of an individual's relative importance within a social group. Predictors of centrality in best friendship networks were examined in 146 children (70 boys, 76 girls, Mage= 9.95). Children completed measures of social confidence,
Betts, LR, Stiller, J
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