Determinants of social desirability bias in sensitive surveys: a literature review

I Krumpal - Quality & quantity, 2013‏ - Springer
Survey questions asking about taboo topics such as sexual activities, illegal behaviour such
as social fraud, or unsocial attitudes such as racism, often generate inaccurate survey …

Sensitive questions in surveys.

R Tourangeau, T Yan - Psychological bulletin, 2007‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Psychologists have worried about the distortions introduced into standardized personality
measures by social desirability bias. Survey researchers have had similar concerns about …

Does conjoint analysis mitigate social desirability bias?

Y Horiuchi, Z Markovich, T Yamamoto - Political Analysis, 2022‏ - cambridge.org
How can we elicit honest responses in surveys? Conjoint analysis has become a popular
tool to address social desirability bias (SDB), or systematic survey misreporting on sensitive …

When to worry about sensitivity bias: A social reference theory and evidence from 30 years of list experiments

G Blair, A Coppock, M Moor - American Political Science Review, 2020‏ - cambridge.org
Eliciting honest answers to sensitive questions is frustrated if subjects withhold the truth for
fear that others will judge or punish them. The resulting bias is commonly referred to as …

Statistical analysis of list experiments

G Blair, K Imai - Political Analysis, 2012‏ - cambridge.org
The validity of empirical research often relies upon the accuracy of self-reported behavior
and beliefs. Yet eliciting truthful answers in surveys is challenging, especially when studying …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying bias in self-reported pro-environmental behavior

K Koller, PK Pankowska, C Brick - Current Research in Ecological and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Research on pro-environmental behavior (PEB) informs social policies and interventions, so
the quality of PEB measurement is critical. Self-reported PEB measures in surveys often …

Social desirability bias in voter turnout reports: Tests using the item count technique

AL Holbrook, JA Krosnick - Public opinion quarterly, 2010‏ - academic.oup.com
Surveys usually yield rates of voting in elections that are higher than official turnout figures, a
phenomenon often attributed to intentional misrepresentation by respondents who did not …

The size of the LGBT population and the magnitude of antigay sentiment are substantially underestimated

KB Coffman, LC Coffman… - Management …, 2017‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
We demonstrate that widely used measures of antigay sentiment and the size of the lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population are misestimated, likely substantially. In a …

What can we learn with statistical truth serum? Design and analysis of the list experiment

AN Glynn - Public Opinion Quarterly, 2013‏ - academic.oup.com
Due to the inherent sensitivity of many survey questions, a number of researchers have
adopted an indirect questioning technique known as the list experiment (or the item-count …

An empirical validation study of popular survey methodologies for sensitive questions

B Rosenfeld, K Imai, JN Shapiro - American journal of political …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
When studying sensitive issues, including corruption, prejudice, and sexual behavior,
researchers have increasingly relied upon indirect questioning techniques to mitigate such …