social desirability

People “fake-good” on personality self-reports more strongly in a job context than in a dating context

Socially desirable responding can impair the validity of self-report questionnaires, especially in high-stakes situations in which people are incentivized to manage the impression they make on others. The current experiment examined the context …

Trait-specificity versus global positivity: A critical test of alternative sources of assumed similarity in personality judgments

For decades, a recurring question in person perception research has been whether people’s perceptions of others’ personality traits are related to how they see themselves on these traits. Indeed, evidence for such “assumed similarity” effects has …