Explore: Social Desirability

In social science research social-desirability bias is a type of response bias that is the tendency of survey respondents to answer questions in a manner

psychometrics, social desirability bias represents response biases that are triggered by social cues. The concept of social desirability in psychometrics can

physical attractiveness by four independent judges, as a measure of social desirability. Participants were told to fill in a questionnaire for the purposes

in studies looking at social desirability, a subtype of response bias, the researchers had no way to quantify the desirability of the statements used

Marlowe–Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MC–SDS) is a 33-item self-report questionnaire that assesses whether or not respondents are concerned with social approval

shame around sex in the LDS Church, and underreporting due to the social-desirability bias is a common issue even among anonymous surveys of many stigmatized

previous experimenters reported different results. Social desirability bias is a bias within social science research where survey respondents can tend

(a socially undesirable action), the perceiver might well feel that their friend is rather stingy, or even miserly. In fact, social desirability – although

Corredor, Javier (23 June 2021). "Illusion of explanatory depth and social desirability of historical knowledge". Metacognition and Learning. 16 (3). Springer

avoid being perceived as having extremist views (an instance of social desirability bias). This effect may appear early in a test due to an expectation