Substance and bias in social desirability responding

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 263-275

  Pauls, Cornelia A ^a   Stemmler, Gerhard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Impression management; Self deceptive enhancement; Self observer agreement; Social desirability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141884274     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00187-3     Document Type: Article

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