Social desirability bias is defined as
A) the desire to be involved in social psychological research.
B) a tendency of research participants to say what they believe is appropriate.
C) the bias of a researcher to only report results that are consistent with his or her hypothesis.
D) a sample that does not accurately reflect the composition of the population.
Answer: B
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