Why the Publication of Socially Harmful Information May Be Socially Desirable

Is Income Mobility Socially Desirable?

In welfare economics the relevance of income mobility has been often highlighted in order to allow for the measurement of equality of opportunity. In this paper we observe that intra and intergenerational income mobility have very few in common and, in particular, only the latter concerns with equality of opportunity. In contrast with existing literature we focus on the former not the latter, a...

Modeling Socially Desirable Responding and Its Effects

Socially desirable responding and sexuality self‐reports

Socially desirable responding and sexuality self‐reports Cindy M. Meston , Julia R. Heiman , Paul D. Trapnell & Delroy L. Paulhus To cite this article: Cindy M. Meston , Julia R. Heiman , Paul D. Trapnell & Delroy L. Paulhus (1998) Socially desirable responding and sexuality self‐reports, The Journal of Sex Research, 35:2, 148-157, DOI: 10.1080/00224499809551928 To link to this article: http://...

Running head: COGNITIVE CONTROL AND SOCIALLY DESIRABLE BEHAVIOR Cognitive Control and Socially Desirable Behavior: The Role of Interpersonal Impact

Individuals’ willingness to act in socially desirable ways, such as sharing resources with others and abiding by norms of ethical conduct, is a necessary condition of social life. The current research reconciles two seemingly contradicting sets of findings on the role of cognitive control in socially desirable behaviors. One set of findings suggests that people are tempted by self-serving impul...

Enhancement and Denial in Socially Desirable Responding

One research tradition has distinguished self-deception, the tendency to give favorably biased but honestly held self-descriptions from impression management, the tendency to give favorable selfdescriptions to others. A 2nd tradition has distinguished enhancement, the claiming of positive attributes, from denial, the repudiation of negative attributes. The 2 distinctions were evaluated jointly ...