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...

favorable self-assessment will only bias those studies' samples. Social desirability bias "A Social Desirability Bias: A Neglected Aspect of Validity Testing"...

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

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

effective at mitigating social desirability bias. People do not necessarily agree on which attitudes are socially desirable. Moreover, these attitudes...

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...

after. Social desirability bias, the tendency to over-report socially desirable characteristics or behaviours in oneself and under-report socially undesirable...

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...

contradictory but some general patterns do emerge. For example, social desirability bias tends to be highest for telephone surveys and lowest for web surveys:...

(central tendency bias), especially out of a desire to avoid being perceived as having extremist views (an instance of social desirability bias). This effect...

Authority bias Bystander effect Influence-for-hire Impression management Judge–advisor system Response bias Social-desirability bias Social influence bias Kelman...

affect decision-making, where the desirability of options has to be considered (e.g., sunk costs fallacy). Biases, such as illusory correlation, that...

Influence-for-hire Pseudo-opinion Response bias Social bot Social-desirability bias Social media bias Social spam Sockpuppet (Internet) Twitter bot Twitter...

Bradley effect Margin of error Sampling error Silent majority Social desirability bias Spiral of silence Swing voter Mount, Harry (4 November 2004). "Republicans...

psychology Social desirability bias Baron-Epel, Orna; Kaplan, Giora; Weinstein, Ruth; Green, Manfred S. (October 2010). "Extreme and acquiescence bias in a...

Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias, or congeniality bias) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information...

you one of the biggest problems we encounter is this notion of social desirability bias,' [Patrick Egan, a professor of politics at New York University]...

posits that the inaccurate polls were skewed by the phenomenon of social desirability bias. Specifically, some voters give inaccurate polling responses for...

Numerous reasons for doomscrolling have been cited, including negativity bias, fear of missing out, and attempts at gaining control over uncertainty. The...

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...

or because they wish to present themselves in a socially acceptable manner. Social desirability bias can be a big problem with self-report measures as...

susceptible to social desirability bias, in which individuals may alter their given responses according to what they think is socially acceptable or “desired”...

persuade an audience to further an agenda which may not be objective Social-desirability bias Sophistry – a term used as a pejorative for a superficially sound...

susceptible to demand characteristics or social desirability bias, potentially influencing participants' responses. Such biases could affect the authenticity of...

Narrative bias, also known as narrative information bias, is a cognitive bias that skews perceptions towards information contained in individual narratives...

Trafalgar Group creates its samples intending to account for a "social desirability bias" effect, the hypothesized tendency of some voters to calibrate...

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...

Gallagher, Aileen (2018). "Profile Pieces: Journalism and the 'Human Interest' Bias by Sue Joseph and Richard Lance Keeble". Journal of Magazine Media. 18 (2)...

self-image (a self-presentational bias). This version of the theory, which is in line with social desirability bias, would predict that people attribute...

sex between men is significantly underreported in surveys due to social desirability bias. Historically, anal sex has been popularly associated with male...