Socially desirable responding on the web: Investigating the candor hypothesis

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 269-276

  Risko, Evan F ^a   Quilty, Lena C ^a   Oakman, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALANCED INVENTORY OF DESIRABLE RESPONDING SCALE; CANDOR HYPOTHESIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INTERNET; LABORATORY; MALE; MARLOWE-CROWNE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCALE; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PERSONALITY TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIALLY DESIRABLE RESPONDING; STUDENT;

EID: 33845608041     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327752jpa8703_08     Document Type: Article

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