Competition as a Socially Desirable Dilemma

Competition as a Socially Desirable Dilemma Theory vs. Experimental Evidence

Cartels are inherently instable. Each cartelist is best off if it breaks the cartel, while the remaining firms remain loyal. If firms interact only once, if products are homogenous, if firms compete in price, and if marginal cost is constant, theory even predicts that strategic interaction forces firms to set the market clearing price. For society, this would be welcome news. Without antitrust ...

Is Income Mobility Socially Desirable?

In welfare economics the relevance of income mobility has been often highlighted in order to allow for the measurement of equality of opportunity. In this paper we observe that intra and intergenerational income mobility have very few in common and, in particular, only the latter concerns with equality of opportunity. In contrast with existing literature we focus on the former not the latter, a...

Enhancement and Denial in Socially Desirable Responding

One research tradition has distinguished self-deception, the tendency to give favorably biased but honestly held self-descriptions from impression management, the tendency to give favorable selfdescriptions to others. A 2nd tradition has distinguished enhancement, the claiming of positive attributes, from denial, the repudiation of negative attributes. The 2 distinctions were evaluated jointly ...

Modeling Socially Desirable Responding and Its Effects

Socially desirable responding and sexuality self‐reports

Socially desirable responding and sexuality self‐reports Cindy M. Meston , Julia R. Heiman , Paul D. Trapnell & Delroy L. Paulhus To cite this article: Cindy M. Meston , Julia R. Heiman , Paul D. Trapnell & Delroy L. Paulhus (1998) Socially desirable responding and sexuality self‐reports, The Journal of Sex Research, 35:2, 148-157, DOI: 10.1080/00224499809551928 To link to this article: http://...