Talk:Social-desirability bias

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I cannot work out what this sentence means: "Being by nature social creatures, all people are inclined to seek some degree of social acceptance, and as with other psychological terms, 'social desirability' is by no means an epithet." Has an adjective been left out before the word "epithet", e.g. "empty" or "mere"? Even that would not be very clear. Do we really need anything after the words "social acceptance"? I can't see what work the rest of the sentence is doing. Metamagician3000 08:50, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I've been bold an deleted it. 212.27.16.18 (talk) 20:25, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

criticizm
One might want to add another subsection "criticizm" or something like that in order to make it clearer, that there is serious critique about the Marlowe-Crowne-Scale. At least one could add the article of Thompson et al. (2012): An evaluation of the validity of the Crowne–Marlowe need for approval scale (see http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11135-011-9563-5) which says that "the CM may be a questionable indicator of socially desirable reporting behavior in social surveys". Thanks for including this! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.177.236.154 (talk) 22:06, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Add matters
I add the followings matters:

1. Social desirability in psychosociology

2. Spurious variables

3. Devices

4. Anonymous self-administration

5. Neutralized administration

6. Psychometric scale

7. other References

+ toc

Ctrl spelling please. Thanks

--Trevinci (talk) 15:55, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Sources and international validity
What is the source for the list of items likely to be affected by this bias? How does it apply internationaly? I don't know of any studies which address this issue, but in my opinion the tendency to inflate patriotism is a cultural phenomenon which is likely to apply to US citizens (and probably some other cultures as well), but won't surface in other parts of the world. It could even happen that in some nations people will tend to downplay their patriotic feelings, if that is the socially approved tendency, e.g. in Germany. Also, in Eastern Europe, low-income citizens are much more likely to admit their true financial state than in the West. So someone who knows the source of the list, please update it with information about the domain for which it is applicable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.206.78.48 (talk) 11:49, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

SDR
What is SDR? It's being used as an acronym without explanation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.68.129.165 (talk) 17:59, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

>>SDR = socially desirable responding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.183.13.51 (talk) 13:35, 26 July 2013 (UTC)