The forced-choice method has been proposed as a viable strategy to prevent socially desirable responding (SDR) on self-report non-cognitive measures. ability of the eliminate SDR stems from matching items that are perceived equally into item-blocks. gold standard in quantifying similarity between terms desirability “mean difference index”, is, absolute items' mean ratings. This index relies ass...

We performed a new test of intransitive choice based on individual measurements of regret theory, the most influential intransitive theory. Our test is tailor-made and, therefore, more likely to detect violations of transitivity than previous tests. In spite of this, we observed only few cycles and we could not reject the hypothesis that they were due to random error. Moreover, there was little...