Are acquiescent and extreme response styles related to low intelligence and education

By G. Meisenberg, Amandy Williams. 2008

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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National IQs: A Review of Their Educational, Cognitive, Economic, Political, Demographic, Sociological, Epidemiological, Geographic and Climatic Correlates. (2012, background): “Variable N countries r×IQ Reference 1 Acquiescence 79 −.55 Meisenberg and Williams (2008) 2 Books in home 63 .59 Rindermann (2008) 3 Extremity 79 −.78 Meisenberg and Williams (2008) 4 Happiness 62 .03 Lynn and Vanhanen (2006) 5 Human Development Index 176 .78 Lynn and Vanhanen (2006) 6 Human…”
Response Styles in Survey Research: A Literature Review of Antecedents, Consequences, and Remedies (2013, background): “With few exceptions, research indicates that education is inversely related to RS. Meisenberg and Williams (2008) find this to be nearly a worldwide phenomenon for ARS and ERS.”
Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being and Their Relationships with Gender Equality (2014, background): “Also the inclusion of a measure of acquiescent response style (Meisenberg and Williams 2008) in the regression models did not affect gender differences in happiness and life satisfaction (data not shown).”
Is the Left-Right Scale a Valid Measure of Ideology? (2017, background): “Studies, for instance, show that higher education reduces the likelihood of acquiescent and extreme responding (Meisenberg and Williams, 2008) and increases measurement reliability in surveys (Alwin and Krosnick, 1991).”
Correcting Big Five Personality Measurements for Acquiescence: An 18–Country Cross–Cultural Study (2013, background): “Several earlier studies (Krosnick, Narayan, & Smith, 1996; McClendon, 1991; Meisenberg & Williams, 2008; Mirowsky & Ross, 1991; Winkler, Kanouse, & Ware, 1982) have suggested that acquiescent responding is related to education.”
Neuromyths among Teachers and Student Teachers. (2015, unknown): “In addition, this bias is more important in low-income regions and in lower educated subjects (e.g., Meisenberg & Williams, 2008), which is not the typical profile of teachers and student teachers surveyed in the present study (in Switzerland, student teachers must have completed college studies to…”
Technostress creators and job outcomes: theorising the moderating influence of personality traits (2015, background): “Assessed respondents’ tendency to agree with a large sample of items that were heterogeneous in content (Knowles & Nathan, 1997; Meisenberg & Williams, 2008).”