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...
25 KB (3,164 words) - 03:12, 9 July 2025
favorable self-assessment will only bias those studies' samples. Social desirability bias "A Social Desirability Bias: A Neglected Aspect of Validity Testing"...
6 KB (674 words) - 09:59, 3 December 2023
psychometrics, social desirability bias represents response biases that are triggered by social cues. The concept of social desirability in psychometrics can...
31 KB (4,160 words) - 15:12, 7 July 2025
in studies looking at social desirability, a subtype of response bias, the researchers had no way to quantify the desirability of the statements used...
40 KB (5,152 words) - 06:40, 29 June 2025
previous experimenters reported different results. Social desirability bias is a bias within social science research where survey respondents can tend...
85 KB (9,451 words) - 20:51, 11 July 2025
if the group is already biased in that direction Social desirability bias, the tendency to over-report socially desirable characteristics or behaviours...
111 KB (10,274 words) - 19:51, 29 July 2025
affect decision-making, where the desirability of options has to be considered (e.g., sunk costs fallacy). Biases, such as illusory correlation, that...
59 KB (6,292 words) - 13:44, 28 July 2025
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...
42 KB (4,880 words) - 18:16, 18 June 2025
Mode effect (redirect from Modal bias)
contradictory but some general patterns do emerge. For example, social desirability bias tends to be highest for telephone surveys and lowest for web surveys:...
8 KB (1,120 words) - 22:10, 3 August 2023
Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias, or congeniality bias) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor and recall information in...
112 KB (13,451 words) - 09:37, 1 August 2025
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...
30 KB (2,547 words) - 00:05, 3 August 2025
(central tendency bias), especially out of a desire to avoid being perceived as having extremist views (an instance of social desirability bias). This effect...
25 KB (3,239 words) - 15:34, 28 July 2025
Doomscrolling (section Negativity bias)
Numerous reasons for doomscrolling have been cited, including negativity bias, fear of missing out, increased anxiety, and attempts at gaining control...
28 KB (3,030 words) - 06:47, 28 July 2025
social desirability bias and racial/ethnic composition on the relation between education and attitude toward immigration restrictionism." The Social Science...
181 KB (19,106 words) - 11:33, 23 July 2025
Influence-for-hire Pseudo-opinion Response bias Social bot Social-desirability bias Social media bias Social spam Sockpuppet (Internet) Twitter bot Twitter...
13 KB (1,563 words) - 17:25, 7 July 2025
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...
97 KB (12,551 words) - 05:10, 11 July 2025
Authority bias Bystander effect Influence-for-hire Impression management Judge–advisor system Popularity Response bias Social-desirability bias Social influence...
32 KB (3,575 words) - 22:24, 19 June 2025
sex between men is significantly underreported in surveys due to social desirability bias. Historically, anal sex has been popularly associated with male...
21 KB (2,160 words) - 14:32, 16 May 2025
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...
63 KB (7,048 words) - 12:17, 23 June 2025
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...
36 KB (3,065 words) - 07:53, 3 August 2025
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...
17 KB (2,139 words) - 09:15, 20 July 2025
Trafalgar Group creates its samples intending to account for a "social desirability bias" effect, the hypothesized tendency of some voters to calibrate...
13 KB (1,298 words) - 10:06, 9 July 2025
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...
67 KB (7,789 words) - 08:06, 30 July 2025
psychology Social desirability bias Baron-Epel, Orna; Kaplan, Giora; Weinstein, Ruth; Green, Manfred S. (October 2010). "Extreme and acquiescence bias in a...
14 KB (1,584 words) - 14:07, 22 July 2025
Availability heuristic (redirect from Availability bias)
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...
42 KB (5,795 words) - 16:10, 26 January 2025
Attribution (psychology) (redirect from Social attribution)
self-image (a self-presentational bias). This version of the theory, which is in line with social desirability bias, would predict that people attribute...
84 KB (10,499 words) - 18:31, 22 July 2025
awareness. The scandal sparked an increased public interest in privacy and social media's influence on politics. The online movement #DeleteFacebook trended...
85 KB (7,617 words) - 01:53, 12 July 2025
susceptible to social desirability bias, in which individuals may alter their given responses according to what they think is socially acceptable or “desired”...
21 KB (2,573 words) - 06:15, 30 July 2025
of question headlines on readership in computer-mediated communication". Social Influence. 9 (4). Taylor and Francis: 289–299. doi:10.1080/15534510.2013...
22 KB (2,444 words) - 05:27, 26 May 2025
August 2019. Chandler, Daniel; Munday, Rod (2016). Oxford Dictionary of Social Media. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780191803093.001.0001...
20 KB (1,962 words) - 15:29, 13 July 2025