Advancing Theories of Socially Desirable Responding: How Identity Processes Influence Answers to “Sensitive Questions”

Brenner, Philip S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47256-6_3

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“…Compared to official figures this is an over-reporting of vaccination. Over-reports are indicative of a social desirability effect and have been recorded in other studies dealing with sensitive topics and normative behavior (Brenner 2020), such as self-reports of individual turnout (DeBell et al 2020) and vaccination (Wolter et al 2022).…”

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The Social Side of Immunization: The Influence of Personal Social Networks on COVID-19 Vaccination in Romania

Lup

2023

Informationsflüsse, Wahlen Und Demokratie

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The Social Side of Immunization: The Influence of Personal Social Networks on COVID-19 Vaccination in Romania

Lup

2023

Informationsflüsse, Wahlen Und Demokratie

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Informationsflüsse, Wahlen und Demokratie

2023

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Der vorliegende Band ist dem Verhältnis von Informationen, Wahlen und Demokratie gewidmet. Deutschland, aber auch andere Länder in den Blick nehmend, widmen sich die Autor:innen vor allem den Bürger:innen, ihren Einstellungen, Interessen und Wahlentscheidungen. Auch die Rolle von Kontexten wird beleuchtet, insbesondere von Informationskontexten: Wie und mit wem sprechen Menschen über Politik, wie informieren sie sich über neue und alte Medien, welche Rollen spielen intermediäre Instanzen?

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“…First, because data had to be collected during the Covid-19 pandemic, the available measures of smartphone use would be parental self-reports [28,39,[131][132][133] or data from phone-use tracking applications [134][135][136]. Self-reports are known to be unreliable and highly susceptible to social desirability factors [137], and studies suggest that adults' retrospective self-reports of their own smartphone use can be susceptible to both underestimation and overestimation [135,136,[138][139][140]. By a similar token, we reasoned that asking parents to use an application that tracks their phone-use is likely to affect their typical smartphone habits.…”

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No evidence for adult smartphone use affecting attribution of communicative intention in toddlers: Online imitation study using the Sock Ball Task

Flatebø,

Óturai,

Hernik

2024

PLoS ONE

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Adults infer others’ communicative intentions, or lack thereof, from various types of information. Young children may be initially limited to attributions based on a small set of ostensive signals. It is unknown when richer pragmatic inferences about communicative intentions emerge in development. We sought novel type of evidence for such inferences in 17-to-19-month-olds. We hypothesized that toddlers recognize adults’ smartphone use in face-to-face interactions as incongruous with ostension and would rely on this interpretation when inferring the communicative intention of a model in a new imitation task conducted entirely online, dubbed the Sock Ball Task. In Experiment 1 with a between-subject design, we tested the hypothesis by assessing toddlers’ (N = 48) imitation of sub-efficient means and the goal-outcome presented by a model, who interrupted her ostensive demonstration either by using a smartphone or by fiddling with her wristwatch, depending on the condition. We expected toddlers to imitate the sub-efficient means more faithfully in the wristwatch condition than in the smartphone condition. But there was no significant effect of condition on imitation of neither means nor goal. Thus, our hypothesis was not borne out by the results. In Experiment 2, using a within-subject design, we first assessed toddlers’ (N = 24) performance in a no-demonstration baseline and then again after a no-disruption ostensive demonstration. In all three conditions with ostensive demonstration (Experiment 1: smartphone, wristwatch; Experiment 2: no-disruption), toddlers produced the demonstrated sub-efficient means significantly above the baseline level. In the no-disruption condition, goals were also imitated significantly above the baseline level. We conclude that the Sock Ball Task is a valid research tool for studying toddler imitation of novel means actions with objects. We end by discussing suggestions for improving the task in future studies.

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Advancing Theories of Socially Desirable Responding: How Identity Processes Influence Answers to “Sensitive Questions”

Cited by 5 publications

References 83 publications

The Social Side of Immunization: The Influence of Personal Social Networks on COVID-19 Vaccination in Romania

The Social Side of Immunization: The Influence of Personal Social Networks on COVID-19 Vaccination in Romania

Informationsflüsse, Wahlen und Demokratie

No evidence for adult smartphone use affecting attribution of communicative intention in toddlers: Online imitation study using the Sock Ball Task

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