Effects of faking on self-deception and impression management scales

By C. A. Pauls, Nicolas W. Crost. 2004

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Objectification Theory Predicts College Women’s Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery (2010, methodology): “In the present study, the items were summed to create scale scores (α=.75), using a continuous scoring method (e.g., Pauls and Crost 2004).”
Social desirability and consensual validity of personality traits (2006, background): “It has been claimed that the reactivity of SD scales to instructional manipulations is an indicator of their poor validity (Pauls & Crost, 2004), but it seems more natural to assume precisely the contrary: it is a necessary condition of validity for a scale designed to measure SDR that it be…”
Validity of the SDS-17 measure of social desirability in the American context (2006, background): “…correlated positively with Marlowe–Crowne scores in all conditions in all three studies, although the correlations under Fake Good conditions may be less reflective of the scale’s construct validity than would be the correlations in the Standard or Honest conditions (cf. Pauls & Crost, 2004).”