When Is Social Responsibility Socially Desirable?

When Is Compliance with the Law Socially Desirable?

When would an individual expect adherence to the law to advance the social good? This timehonored question is of more than intellectual interest, for if individuals have some desire to foster social welfare, the answer to it may help to explain and guide actual compliance with the law. In the model that I study, an individual’s knowledge of factors relevant to social welfare is inferior to lawm...

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://...