Why do people respond in socially desirable ways?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Socially desirable responding is the tendency of people to make themselves look better than they actually are. It occurs because people want to appear "good" to the researcher.

Psychology

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A) ?a mother of young children. B) ?launching her children and moving on. C) ?newly married. D) ?an unattached young adult, between families.

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A) neurons. B) neuroglia. C) parts of the autonomic nervous system. D) meninges. E) myelin.

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Psychology