What Is the "Social Desirability Effect

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Multiple Choice

What is the "social desirability effect"?

• A) The bias in surveys that comes from the failure of pollsters to interview respondents from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.
• B) The strong desire that people have to express their opinions to survey researchers.
• C) The fact that respondents report what they think the interviewer wishes to hear or whatever they think is socially acceptable rather than what they actually believe.
• D) The impression conveyed by polls that something is important to the public when actually it is not.

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