What Is the Social Desirability Effect

question 10

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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