The present chapter presents two studies examining the differential effects of acquiescence and social desirability on value scores across cultures. In the first study, culture-level acquiescence indexes were extracted from data in eight multinational surveys, and culture-level social desirability scores were obtained from a meta-analysis of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Both ty...

The automatic monitoring of cyberbullying on social networking sites has potential for signalling harmful messages, preventing these messages from remaining online and providing timely responses. Although technological advancements are made to optimise automatic cyberbullying detection systems, little is known about its desirability and requirements. Experts in the field of cyberbullying, as ex...

The purpose of this investigation was to examine social desirability and social approval as sources of error in three self-reported physical activity assessments using objective measures of physical activity as reference measures. In 1997, women (n = 81) living in Worcester, Massachusetts, completed doubly labeled water measurements and wore an activity monitor for 14 days. They also completed ...

Abstract Previous studies have found that implicit attitudes, in addition to explicit toward sports and exercise can help predict health-related behaviors. This study aimed explore the factors determine attitudes exercise. Using an online experiment, we investigated two types of exercise: desirability enjoyment. Implicit were measured using different Association Test (IAT) for joy. We examined ...

BACKGROUND Studies of HIV often use self-reported surveys to measure sexual knowledge, attitudes, and practices. However, the self-reported data are vulnerable to social desirability (SD), a propensity of individuals to report favorable responses. The Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MC-SDS) was developed as a measure of the effect of social desirability, but it has not been adapted fo...

A comprehensive approach to the problem of improving quality construction residential buildings, allows you take into account various main factors that affect in General. Using method expert opinions, most significant parameters were identified. The weight each factor is determined using a mathematical model. experiment examined three levels variation significance for group factors. After obtai...

Abstract Introduction Hospitalization is associated with acute changes in sarcopenia status older people, but the influencing factors are not fully understood. Pre-admission care dependency level as a risk factor has yet been investigated. Objective Evaluate if pre-admission an independent predictor of following hospitalization. Setting and subjects Data came from Sarcopenia 9+ EAMA Project, Eu...

The notion that desire for an outcome inflates optimism about that outcome has been dubbed the desirability bias or wishful thinking. In this paper, we discuss the importance of distinguishing wishful thinking from the more general concept of motivated reasoning, and we explain why documenting overoptimism or correlations between preferences and optimism is not sufficient to infer a desirabilit...

Attempts to measure and analyze public opinion attitudes toward racial/ethnic minorities often confront the "social desirability" problem: those who have prejudiced attitudes are rarely willing to admit them to surveyors. Instead, they may be more likely to give a socially acceptable answer rather an accurate reflection of their views. Previous research has clearly established that this effect ...

In this research, we model a semiconductor wafer fabrication process as a complex job shop, and adapt a Modified Shifting Bottleneck Heuristic (MSBH) to facilitate the multi-criteria optimization of makespan, cycle time, and total weighted tardiness using a desirability function. The desirability function is implemented at two different levels of the MSBH: the subproblem solution procedure leve...