• 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...
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  • favorable self-assessment will only bias those studies' samples. Social desirability bias "A Social Desirability Bias: A Neglected Aspect of Validity Testing"...
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  • psychometrics, social desirability bias represents response biases that are triggered by social cues. The concept of social desirability in psychometrics can...
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    in studies looking at social desirability, a subtype of response bias, the researchers had no way to quantify the desirability of the statements used...
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  • previous experimenters reported different results. Social desirability bias is a bias within social science research where survey respondents can tend...
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  • if the group is already biased in that direction Social desirability bias, the tendency to over-report socially desirable characteristics or behaviours...
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    affect decision-making, where the desirability of options has to be considered (e.g., sunk costs fallacy). Biases, such as illusory correlation, that...
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  • The negativity bias, also known as the negativity effect, is a cognitive bias that, even when positive or neutral things of equal intensity occur, things...
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    contradictory but some general patterns do emerge. For example, social desirability bias tends to be highest for telephone surveys and lowest for web surveys:...
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  • Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias, or congeniality bias) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor and recall information in...
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    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...
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    (central tendency bias), especially out of a desire to avoid being perceived as having extremist views (an instance of social desirability bias). This effect...
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    Numerous reasons for doomscrolling have been cited, including negativity bias, fear of missing out, increased anxiety, and attempts at gaining control...
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  • social desirability bias and racial/ethnic composition on the relation between education and attitude toward immigration restrictionism." The Social Science...
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    Influence-for-hire Pseudo-opinion Response bias Social bot Social-desirability bias Social media bias Social spam Sockpuppet (Internet) Twitter bot Twitter...
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  • Overtime, social media has become a larger way of how we are informed by the news of what is going on in the world. These new stations can ever biased about...
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  • Authority bias Bystander effect Influence-for-hire Impression management Judge–advisor system Popularity Response bias Social-desirability bias Social influence...
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    sex between men is significantly underreported in surveys due to social desirability bias. Historically, anal sex has been popularly associated with male...
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  • prototype they know of.: 63  Several other biases have been found by social cognition researchers. The hindsight bias is a false memory of having predicted...
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    the wrong way.' Solem said the Bradley Effect is also known as social desirability bias. Rojas, Aurelio (October 9, 2008). "California poll on Prop. 8...
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  • self-presentation is also implicit in the social desirability bias. This bias is the tendency to give the "socially desired response" (e.g., a response that...
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  • Trafalgar Group creates its samples intending to account for a "social desirability bias" effect, the hypothesized tendency of some voters to calibrate...
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  • commercial bias, temporal bias, visual bias, bad news bias, narrative bias, status quo bias, fairness bias, expediency bias, class bias and glory bias (or the...
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  • psychology Social desirability bias Baron-Epel, Orna; Kaplan, Giora; Weinstein, Ruth; Green, Manfred S. (October 2010). "Extreme and acquiescence bias in a...
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  • The availability heuristic, also known as availability bias, is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind...
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  • self-image (a self-presentational bias). This version of the theory, which is in line with social desirability bias, would predict that people attribute...
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  • awareness. The scandal sparked an increased public interest in privacy and social media's influence on politics. The online movement #DeleteFacebook trended...
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  • susceptible to social desirability bias, in which individuals may alter their given responses according to what they think is socially acceptable or “desired”...
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  • of question headlines on readership in computer-mediated communication". Social Influence. 9 (4). Taylor and Francis: 289–299. doi:10.1080/15534510.2013...
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  • August 2019. Chandler, Daniel; Munday, Rod (2016). Oxford Dictionary of Social Media. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780191803093.001.0001...
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