Psychologists have worried about the distortions introduced into standardized personality
measures by social desirability bias. Survey researchers have had similar concerns about …

Eliciting honest answers to sensitive questions is frustrated if subjects withhold the truth for
fear that others will judge or punish them. The resulting bias is commonly referred to as …

This paper develops a resource model of political participation. The resources considered
are time, money, and civic skills—those communications and organizational capacities that …

Zusammenfassung Die Methoden der Empirischen Sozialforschung sind hoch spezialisiert
und vermögen es, eine breite Aufgabenpalette abzudecken. Sie reichen von der …

The effects of respondent characteristics with regard to the propensity of nonvoters to report
that they voted are examined by analyzing the vote validation studies conducted by the …

The quality of drug data in the 1984 wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth is
explored. Comparisons with other national surveys indicate that underreporting of use of …

Although many have hypothesized that neighborhoods and social context are important
influences on the decision to vote, the data to study these phenomenon have often been …

As the first book to examine the psychological motivations underlying people's attitudes, as
well as why people form attitudes, this volume presents empirical research describing …

Abstract" Analyzing Social Behavior"... provides the first full coverage of the social sciences
from the perspective of modern behavior analysis. The book provides an up-to-date …

Tutors trained in applied behaviour analysis (n= 16) and mainstream school teachers (n=
16) were exposed to an Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) designed to …