. What is socially desirable responding? Name and explain two approaches to deal with this threat to internal validity.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Socially desirable responding refers to the human tendency to answer in such a way as to represent ourselves in a favorable light. We may do this consciously or completely unconsciously. One way to deal with this threat is to also administer a measure of social desirability if you think there is a possible problem with the measure of your actual construct. Then, you would test to see if there is a correlation between your measure and the social desirability score. You can use the social desirability scale as a covariate and control for the issue, or it the correlation is very high, you may not be able to use your measure. Another way researchers are dealing with social desirability is through reaction time tests, most notably the Implicit Association Test. If something takes too much time, then the person may be suppressing a nondesirable response. This is best done if the subject matter of your research is socially sensitive. However, researchers might want to use such information with caution since the reasons that someone might be suppressing answers demand confidentiality.
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