Social desirability bias in face to face interviews

Iconic Gestures in Face-to-Face TV Interviews

This paper presents a study of iconic gestures as attested in a corpus of Greek face-to-face television interviews. This study takes place in an interactional context that is different from the narrative genre that has been primarily examined so far regarding the semantics and the communicative significance of the iconic gestures. We attempt to classify the iconic gestures attested according to...

Face to face with the social brain.

Recent comparative evidence suggests that anthropoid primates are the only vertebrates to exhibit a quantitative relationship between relative brain size and social group size. In this paper, I attempt to explain this pattern with regard to facial expressivity and social bonding. I hypothesize that facial motor control increases as a secondary consequence of neocortical expansion owing to corti...

Telephone versus Face-to-face Interviewing of National Probability Samples with Long Questionnaires Comparisons of Respondent Satisficing and Social Desirability Response Bias

The last 50 years have seen a gradual replacement of face-to-face interviewing with telephone interviewing as the dominant mode of survey data collection in the United States. But some of the most expensive and large-scale nationally funded, long-term survey research projects involving national area-probability samples and long questionnaires retain face-to-face interviewing as their mode. In t...

Modeling face-to-face social interaction networks

Social desirability Bias in Software Piracy Research

Most behavioural aspects of software piracy research are a subset of ethical research. Measures of ethical behaviour in research may be subject to biases in response to the social desirability of behaviours. Few studies in the area of software piracy have explicitly addressed this issue. Literature on social desirability bias (SDB) reports on three ways to address response bias: approaches to r...