A New Scale of Social Desirability Independent of Psychopathology

Crowne, D. P., & Marlowe, D. (1960). A New Scale of Social Desirability Independent of Psychopathology. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 24(4), 349-354.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1960

Volume

24

Issue

4

Pages

349-354

DOI

10.1037/h0047358

DOI registrant

American Psychological Association

Link

https://doi.org/10.1037/h0047358

Cited from

psychology

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Public vs. Private Contexts
  • While individuals may express different preferences in public versus private, this difference does not necessarily indicate false consciousness or moral inconsistency, a reframing Crowne and Marlowe (1960) anticipated in their treatment of social desirability as systematic response bias rather than character flaw.

Mechanisms

• Valence Tracking Log
  • Its central failure mode is social-desirability bias: participants report the attitude they think is wanted rather than the one they hold, so the log records warming that is really just politeness — especially where a power asymmetry makes candor costly.

    This sourceDefines and measures socially desirable responding as giving culturally approved answers to obtain social approval rather than reporting candidly.

Verification

Does it exist? Confirmed. This work's DOI resolves to a registered record, which fixes its identity. That is all it fixes.

Does it back the claim? Not recorded. Neither this nor any other of the 2 citations of this work carries a recorded support check.

Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.

See how references were verified.

Registry ID ref:ddc2b201c0ae · see in the full table