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Showing 1 to 20 of 173 for “"social desirability"”.
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Unobtrusively Measuring Racial Attitudes: The Consequences of Social Desirability Effects
… external motivation of respondents to provide socially desirable responses. I also provide evidence from two less obtrusive priming experiments testing the hypothesis that traditional measures of racial attitudes produce erroneous conclusions not just about the descriptive nature of whites' …
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The Structure and Utility of Social Desirability Scales in Psychological Research
… researchers have tried to measure and control socially desirable responding (SDR) using scales designed to quantify its influence. At this point, it seems necessary to ask two questions. First, ""are these scales valid?"" and second, ""are they useful?"" In Phase 1 of the research, the …
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An examination of social desirability confounds in a new ipsative measure of Murray's Psychogenic Needs
… critical to minimise the confounding effects of social desirability (the tendency for respondents to describe oneself in the most favourable light). Whilst other measures typically use specifically designed scales to detect social desirability confounds, this approach is unsuitable for …
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Empathy As A Moderator Of Adolescent Bullying Behavior And Moral Disengagement After Controlling For Social Desirability
… and moral disengagement after controlling for social desirability (e.g., response bias). 676 students in 7th and 8th grade from a suburban middle school in Southeast Michigan participated in this study in the fall of 2012. </p> <p>Results showed male respondents were more likely than female …
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The Relationship Among Wellness, Severity Of Disturbance, And Social Desirability Of Entering Master's-level Counseling Students
… other constructs: psychological disturbance and social desirability. In order to test the research hypotheses, a total of nine programs (in five states) and 204 entering master's-level counseling students completed instrumentation packets comprised of the Five-Factor Wellness Evaluation of …
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Social desirability, need for uniqueness, and the illusion of explanatory depth in perceptions of the fine arts
… The study also explored the association between socially desirable responding, need for uniqueness and attitudes and perceptions toward the fine arts with how important people believe the arts to be. I hypothesized that levels of aesthetic appreciation of art would decrease due to the writing …
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Torrefied wood pellets as an alternative fuel to coal : climate benefits and social desirability of production and use
… thesis is to study the climate impacts and the social returns and social desirability of torrefied wood pellet production and use as an alternative fuel to coal. The raw material of torrefied pellets is forest chips and production and use are assumed to take place in Finland. Climate impacts are …
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The influence of an experimentally transient increase in sensory awareness (tactical) upon self-disclosure, momentary anxiety and ratings of social desirability
… namely, self-disclosure, momentary anxiety and social desirability. Three conditions will be used: (1) an experimental situation focusing upon direct sensory awareness; (2) an experimental situation focusing upon cognitive awareness of sensory experience; and, (3) a control situation in which …
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Gender differences in levels of suggestibility
… (self-esteem, self-monitoring, and social desirability) and how these differences apply to matters of eyewitness testimony. A total of 70 undergraduates (37 male, 33 female) completed a memory task followed by three personality inventories (the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the …
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"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference" : further exploration of attitude alignment in the context of close relationship dyads /
… that relationship closeness, affect, attachment, social desirability, and centrality are each related to attitude alignment for individuals in close couples. The couples filled out an attitude questionnaire consisting of 50 issues in which they were asked to give their attitude on a scale from 1 …
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Explicit and Implicit Attitude Tests Examining Attitude Towards Obese People Among Undergraduate Psychology Students
… or explicit attitudes which may be biased by social desirability. Therefore, the present study examined both explicit and implicit, that are considered to be unconscious, attitudes towards obese individuals. A sample of 46 undergraduate psychology students participated in the study. The …
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Can Quantitative Assessment of Moral Identity Be Improved?
… respond in a certain way on the MIS, the role of social desirability to respond favorably is very plausible. The current study, therefore, attempts to reduce socially desirable responding on the moral identity construct. The hypothesis of this study was that the revised Moral Identity …
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THE EFFECTS OF STRESS AND MARITAL INTIMACY ON PREGNANCY AND BIRTH COMPLICATIONS.
… levels were not related to pregnancy outcome. Social desirability and conflict resolution on the intimacy measure, as well as ethnicity were significantly related to pregnancy and birth complications. Particular attention is focused on social desirability and its implications for future social …
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