Some Effects of "Social Desirability" in Survey Studies

Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix.

1959 • 16,404 citations

The Structure of Psychological Well-Being.

1970 • 4,990 citations

Unobtrusive Measures: Nonreactive Research in the Social Sciences

1966 • 2,034 citations

The Approval Motive: Studies in Evaluative Dependence

1965 • 1,963 citations

Measures of Social Psychological Attitudes.

1976 • 1,847 citations

The Social Desirability Variable in Personality Assessment and Research.

1959 • 1,404 citations

Americans View Their Mental Health, 1957

1984 • 1,137 citations

Method and Measurement in Sociology.

1966 • 907 citations

Research Methods in Social Relations.

1960 • 656 citations

The relationship between the judged desirability of a trait and the probability that the trait will be endorsed.

1953 • 580 citations

The Logic of Survey Analysis

1969 • 473 citations

Reports on Happiness.

1966 • 371 citations

Unobtrusive Measures: Non-Reactive Research in the Social Sciences.

1966 • 312 citations

Interviewing in Social Research

1955 • 289 citations

A multiple-indicator approach to attitude measurement.

1964 • 221 citations

Validity of Responses to Survey Questions

1950 • 220 citations

Dimensions of Marriage Happiness

1968 • 189 citations

Survey Design and Analysis

1955 • 174 citations

Social Participation and Happiness

1967 • 134 citations

Response Biases in Field Studies of Mental Illness

1970 • 99 citations

Comparison of a Self-Enumerative Procedure and a Personal Interview: A Validity Study

1963 • 86 citations

Validity of Welfare Mothers' Interview Responses

1968 • 83 citations

The Social Nature of Psychological Research

1968 • 70 citations

Self-appraisal, personal desirability, and perceived social desirability of personality traits.

1956 • 69 citations

Social desirability in the MMPI and Welsh's factor scales A and R.

1959 • 48 citations

Public and private conformity under different conditions of acceptance in the group.

1957 • 46 citations

Social Status, Status Incongruence and Symptoms of Stress

1969 • 41 citations

The social desirability of trait descriptive terms: Applications to a self-concept inventory.

1959 • 40 citations

East Pakistan: Knowledge and Use of Contraceptives

1969 • 18 citations

Reliable and Unreliable Respondents : Party Registration and Prestige Pressure

1966 • 10 citations

Comment on Charles Winick, "The Diffusion of an Innovation Among Physicians in a Large City"

1963 • 8 citations