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

By Ivar Krumpal. 2013

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability

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Robust Optimization for Fairness with Noisy Protected Groups (2020, background): “Social desirability response bias may affect participants’ answers regarding religion, political affiliation, or sexual orientation [40].”
Revisiting the Foundations of Organizational Distrust (2017, neutral): “Krumpal’s [2013] review provides an overview of data collection strategies and survey methods that may be effective in attenuating social undesirability problems.”
Information Could Reduce Consumer Demand for Exotic Pets (2017, background): “Hosting the survey online in the guise of an exotic pet matching tool meant that respondents were unaware that their choices formed an experimental survey, eliminating many biases that may arise from questionnaires, especially those examining a socially sensitive subject (Warner 1965; Dilman 2007; R”
“Everything Is Perfect, and We Have No Problems”: Detecting and Limiting Social Desirability Bias in Qualitative Research (2019, background): “…answering a question in a particular way has links to rational choice theory—that is, to maximize utility and goal achievement—and the subjective expected utility theory—considering the risks, losses, and outcomes associated with the decision to admit to a sensitive behavior or not (Krumpal, 2013).”
Smart, Responsible, and Upper Caste Only: Measuring Caste Attitudes through Large-Scale Analysis of Matrimonial Profiles (2019, methodology): “Unlike surveys which depend on self reported openness which may have a social desirability bias (Krumpal 2013) or measuring incidence of intercaste marriages which may be different from actual openness, in our work, we use data from online matrimonial profiles where users specify their openness to i”
Enriching qualitative research by engaging peer interviewers: a case study (2016, background): “The ease of peer-interviewers to address sensitive topics in a more natural way may reduce the tendency to skip or re-word questions that may feel invasive or sensitive; interviewers without such experience might have a more emotional response (Krumpal 2013).”
Episodic Narrative Interview: Capturing Stories of Experience With a Methods Fusion (2019, background): “There are many social phenomena like this—ethics, leadership, loyalty, responsibility, and caring, to name a few— where deep-seated preconceptions about normative behavior are thought to condition participant responses about these phenomena during research interviews (similar to social desirability ”
Social desirability is the same in offline, online, and paper surveys: A meta-analysis (2014, background): “…of " cannot say " / " do not answer " ), possibility to backtracking responses in the computer survey, and inclusion of sensitive questions (e.g., questions about drug use, sexual behaviour, or religious orientation; for definitions of sensitive questions see Krumpal, 2013; Tourangeau & Yan, 2007).”
Altering the Trajectory of the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (2017, methodology): “Although validation of the items in the teacher beliefs survey (Pohan & Aguilar, 2001) and the methods of delivering the survey suggest that social desirability may not have played a salient role in teachers’ responses(10) (Krumpal, 2013), it is nevertheless necessary to consider limitations inheren”
Journalists and mental health: The psychological toll of covering everyday trauma (2019, background): “Low response rates could be the result of hesitance to share experiences related to trauma and mental health due to social desirability bias (Krumpal, 2013).”
Undesirable biases in NLP: Averting a crisis of measurement (2022, background): “One potential issue with such explicit assessments of human biases is that participants might alter their behavior in socially desirable ways (i.e., people tend to give answers in line with what they perceive to be the social norm; Krumpal, 2013).”