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Three common social desirability scales: Friends, acquaintances, or strangers?

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1978 • 98 citations

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The construct validity of social desirability.

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Social Desirability in Measures of Subjective Well-being: a Systematic Evaluation

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A Questionnaire Measure of Individual Differences in Achieving Tendency

1978 • 82 citations

Influence of social desirability on symptom and mood reporting in a community survey.

1975 • 81 citations

Research notes and communications development and validation of the strategic locus of control scale

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1977 • 78 citations

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1980 • 78 citations

Intellectual and personality correlates of test anxiety.

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Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Personality: The Netherlands and England

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An empirically derived MMPI scale which measures facilitation-inhibition of recognition of threatening stimuli

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Validation of Two Scales for Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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The Measurement of Selfism

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Faking biodata tests: Are option-keyed instruments more resistant?

1991 • 67 citations

Refining the Nomological Net of the Adult Playfulness Scale: Personality, Motivational, and Attitudinal Correlates for Highly Intelligent Adults

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Personality assessment via questionnaires : current issues in theory and measurement

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Assessment of Violence Potential Using Measures of Anger, Hostility and Social Desirability

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1974 • 60 citations

The personality characteristics of Anglican ordinands: Feminine men and masculine women?

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A multidimensional social desirability inventory

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An Adult Version of the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory: Test-Retest Reliability and Social Desirability

1978 • 53 citations

The relationship between the Marlowe-Crowne form C and the validity scales of the MMPI

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On the Two-Dimensional Nature of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale

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

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1976 • 47 citations

Cross-cultural comparisons of personality: Finland and England

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Social desirability in the Eysenck Personality Inventory

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Comparison of four jealousy scales

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1985 • 35 citations

Self-reported hostility as a function of offense characteristics and response style in a sexual offender population.

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1947 • 33 citations

Stress-Coping Abilities of Individuals High and Low in Jealousy

1979 • 33 citations

Physical attractiveness and academic performance: Beauty is not always talent¹

1979 • 32 citations

Concurrent validity of the Depression Adjective Check List in a normal population

1978 • 32 citations

The effect of testing instructions for handling social desirability on the Eysenck personality questionnaire

1987 • 32 citations

A Questionnaire Measure of Individual Differences in Dominance-Submissiveness

1978 • 31 citations

Construct validity of sensation seeking and curiosity measures of normal and psychotic subjects.

1976 • 30 citations

The dual nature of the EPQ lie scale among university students in Australia

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Can confidentiality of data pay off?

1984 • 28 citations

Nonlinear models of clinical judgment: Meehl's data revisited.

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Personality and deception ability

1988 • 28 citations

The performance of male prisoners on the Marlowe-Crowne social desirability scale: II. Differences as a function of race and crime

1967 • 28 citations

Self-Esteem and Social Desirability in Relation to College Students' Retrospective Perceptions of Parental Fairness and Disciplinary Practices

1991 • 28 citations

Social desirability and the expression of aggression under varying conditions of frustration.

1959 • 27 citations

The Relationship of the Marlowe-Crowne Scale and its Components to Defensive Preferences

1979 • 27 citations

Validity of the Wiener subtle and obvious scales for the MMPI: Another example of the importance of inventory-item content.

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Convergent and Discriminant Validation of a Measure of Social Self-Concept

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PENmanship: Faking the P‐E‐N

1976 • 25 citations

Some implications of lie scale scores in real‐life selection

1981 • 25 citations

The Remote Associates Test as a Predictor of Productivity in Brainstorming Groups

1981 • 25 citations

The absorption scale: A factor-analytic assessment

1980 • 25 citations

Social Desirability, Extraversion, and Neuroticism: A Learning Analysis

1966 • 25 citations

A Cross-Cultural Study of Personality: Israel and England

1985 • 25 citations

Some characteristics of the simulated self

1992 • 25 citations

Development of a Lie Scale for the Child Abuse Potential Inventory

1982 • 24 citations

Personality and learning FORTRAN

1985 • 23 citations

Social desirability and Wiggins's MMPI content scales.

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Social Desirability and Need Approval: Some Paradoxical Data and a Conceptual Re‐evaluation

1974 • 22 citations

The Kirton Adaption Innovation Inventory, Faking, and Social Desirability: A Replication and Extension

1986 • 22 citations

Social desirability, defensiveness and self-report psychiatric inventory scores

1980 • 22 citations

The Effects of Social Desirability, Intelligence, and Milieu on an American Validation of the Conservatism Scale

1979 • 21 citations

The lie scale of the Maudsley personality inventory

1962 • 21 citations

Self-Monitoring and Innovativeness

1987 • 21 citations

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1971 • 21 citations

Notes on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory: the K-factor.

1948 • 20 citations

Simulation by College Students of a Prescribed Pattern on a Personality Scale

1951 • 20 citations

The genetic structure of personality I. Phenotypic factor structure of the EPQ in an Australian sample

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Fakeability and correlates of the perception and preference inventory

1987 • 19 citations

Further Evidence on 16 PF Distortion Scales

1978 • 19 citations

A Cross-Validation of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale Items

1964 • 18 citations

Assessing the Likelihood of Reliable Workplace Behavior: Further Contributions to the Validation of the Employee Reliability Inventory

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A field experimental test of expectancy-valence incentive motivation techniques

1976 • 18 citations

Response set and the prediction of clerical job performance.

1961 • 17 citations

Further Normative and Comparative Data on the Repression-Sensitization and Social Desirability Scales

1967 • 17 citations

Relationships between Growth need Strength and selected individual differences measures employed in job design research

1979 • 16 citations

The relation of nAch to extraversion, emotional instability and level of anxiety in people of different social status and success

1984 • 15 citations

The relation of the Marlowe-Crowne social desirability scale to the cattell anxiety scale

1963 • 15 citations

The Nomothetical Network of a Machiavellianism Scale

1984 • 15 citations

Social desirability and the Maudsley personality inventory

1963 • 14 citations

Applicants' Fraud in Law Enforcement

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A Note on the Reliability and Validity of the Marlowe-Crowne Scale of Social Desirability

1974 • 13 citations

Construct validity and personality correlates of the Strelau temperament inventory

1988 • 13 citations

Human Needs and Job Satisfaction: A Multidimensional Approach

1982 • 13 citations

Social Desirability Response Sets and a Measure of Self-Actualization

1973 • 13 citations

The Relationship between Juvenile Delinquency and Personality Dimensions of Family Members

1985 • 13 citations

A CROSS‐CULTURAL VALIDATION OF THE PERSONALITY RESEARCH FORM IN ZIMBABWE

1990 • 12 citations

The MPI and the EPI: a Comparative Study on Depressive Patients

1969 • 12 citations

RESPONSE BIASES AND TRAIT DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES

1973 • 12 citations

The Assertion Inventory: Its Relationship to Social Desirability and Sensitivity to Rejection

1984 • 12 citations

Effects of Gender, Age, Locus of Control, and Self-Esteem on Estimates of College Grades

1980 • 11 citations

Self-efficacy, interpersonal competence, and social desirability in homeless people

1993 • 11 citations

A Comparison of Two Samples, South Africans and Canadians, on Social Desirability

1993 • 11 citations

Response Set Scores As Predictors Of Performance¹

1965 • 11 citations

An empirical investigation of self-esteem as a composite construct

1984 • 11 citations

The Edwards Personal Preference Schedule and social desirability.

1957 • 11 citations

Two Studies of Yeasaying

1987 • 11 citations

SOCIAL DESIRABILITY AS A MODERATOR OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB SATISFACTION AND PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT

1974 • 11 citations

The Eysenck Personality Scores of Japanese and Canadian Undergraduates

1982 • 10 citations

Multimethod Analysis of Three Measures of Six Common Personality Traits

1973 • 10 citations

Personality and attitude correlates of psychosedative drug use

1985 • 10 citations

Some Personality Correlates of Time Competence, Temporal Extension and Temporal Evaluation

1978 • 10 citations

Self-Esteem, Need for Approval and Self-Estimates of Academic Performance

1978 • 10 citations

Signature Size and Self-Estimation: A Brief Note

1973 • 9 citations

Social Desirability and Psychometric Characteristics of the Personal Orientation Inventory

1973 • 9 citations

Perceiver and target effects in personality ratings

1989 • 9 citations

Psychometric correlates of the Mosher Forced Choice Guilt Inventory.

1978 • 9 citations

Intercorrelations among Repression-Sensitization, Extroversion, Neuroticism, Social Desirability, and Locus of Control

1972 • 9 citations

Development of a biographical inventory blank to predict faking on personality tests.

1974 • 9 citations

A person-situation causal analysis of self-reports of attitudes.

1981 • 8 citations

Construct Validity for a Measure of Generalized Expectancy of Task Success

1981 • 8 citations

Improving the Validity of Affective Self-Report Measures Through Constructing Personality Scales Unconfounded With Social Desirability: a Study of the Personality Research Form1

1975 • 8 citations

Psychometric Evaluation of the Singer-Loomis Inventory of Personality

1993 • 8 citations

Personality and learning BASIC.

1984 • 8 citations

A cross-cultural unisex ideal self scale for the adjective check list

1979 • 8 citations

Desire for personal feedback: Who wants it and what does it mean for psychotherapy?

1982 • 8 citations

Relationship of Student Characteristics and Performance in a Personalized System of Instruction Course

1978 • 8 citations

Self-esteem, locus of control, and approval motivation in married couples

1975 • 7 citations

Self-image and personality

1990 • 7 citations

Measurement of Response Sets

1964 • 7 citations

Social Desirability Response Set and the Eysenck Personality Inventory

1984 • 7 citations

Effects of defensiveness and self-actualization on a Herzberg replication

1975 • 6 citations

Personality correlates of attraction in response to attitude similarity

1977 • 6 citations

Psychometric Evaluation of the Microcomputerized Personality Research Form

1989 • 6 citations

Locus of Control in Women Occupying Middle-Management and Nonmanagement Positions

1989 • 5 citations

The type a behavior pattern and the need to prove oneself: A correlational study

1987 • 5 citations

Relationship between the Social Desirability Scale and the California Psychological Inventory

1962 • 5 citations

Machiavellianism: Some Problems with a Dutch Mach V Scale

1979 • 5 citations

The Specificity of Acquiescence

1973 • 5 citations

Measuring Preferences for Hierarchical Control: An Attitude Scale for Contemporary Times

1975 • 4 citations

The Repression-Sensitization Scale: Effects of Several Variables and Two Methods of Obtaining Scores

1969 • 4 citations

The College Women's Assertion Sample (CWAS): A Cross-Validation

1984 • 4 citations

Cpi Variables in Relation to the Polygraph Performance of Police Officer Candidates

1981 • 4 citations

Machiavellianism and Industrial Behavior

1965 • 4 citations

Neuroticism, social desirability and anticipations and attributions affecting self‐disclosure

1980 • 3 citations

Social desirability variance in the eysenck personality inventory scales

1973 • 3 citations

The development of a scale to measure task completion motivation

1977 • 3 citations

Field dependence and social desirability response set

1972 • 3 citations

A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Social Desirability Variable

1973 • 3 citations

Validation of the Job Desirability Exercise: A Decision-Modeling Experiment for Measuring the Need for Socialized Power

1993 • 2 citations

Social Desirability as Related to the Success-Failure Inventory

1972 • 2 citations

Stress and performance during and after Officer Candidate School.

1974 • 2 citations

A-B as a measure of external sensation seeking

1976 • 2 citations

The introversion-extraversion factor and social desirability

1960 • 2 citations

Further Exploration of the Relationship between Locus of Control and Social Desirability

1987 • 2 citations

Satiation: A New Source of Stylistic Response Variance in Psychometric Measurement

1983 • 2 citations

Personal Beliefs, Information Availability, and Judgments of Academic Success

1979 • 2 citations

The first-factor loadings of MMPI factor scales

1991 • 1 citations

Social Desirability, Adjustment and Effectiveness

1971 • 1 citations

Relationship between two measures of repression and sensitization

1969 • 1 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations