Agentic and communal bias in socially desirable responding

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 853-868

  Lönnqvist, Jan Erik ^a   Verkasalo, Markku ^a   Bezmenova, Irina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOR THE HUMANITIES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Communion management; Self deceptive enhancement; Socially desirable responding; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648957202     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.639     Document Type: Article

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