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Understanding sources of social desirability bias in different modes: evidence from eye-tracking

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  • Kaminska, Olena
  • Foulsham, Tom

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Our paper provides an empirical study of whether satisficing is related to social desirability bias using real-world eye-tracking. The method enables detecting latency of eye gazes in web, face-to-face and paper and pencil self-administered (SAQ) modes. Through these we infer respondents’ attention to question wording, socially desirable and socially undesirable response scale points. We link the gaze latency measures to responses to understand how respondents arrive at socially desirable or undesirable answers. We find that satisficing is related to social desirability bias in self-completion modes. Yet it does not explain the higher incidence of socially desirable responses in face-to-face mode.

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  • Kaminska, Olena & Foulsham, Tom, 2013. "Understanding sources of social desirability bias in different modes: evidence from eye-tracking," ISER Working Paper Series 2013-04, Institute for Social and Economic Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:ese:iserwp:2013-04
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    1. Blom, Annelies G. & Burton, Jonathan & Booker, Cara L. & Cernat, Alexandru & Fairbrother, Malcolm & Jäckle, Annette & Kaminska, Olena & Keusch, Florian & Krosnick, Jon A. & Lynn, Peter & Oberski, Dan, 2015. "Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 7: Results from Methodological Experiments," Understanding Society Working Paper Series 2015-03, Understanding Society at the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
    2. Shahidul Islam, 2021. "Impact Of Lottery Incentive On Response Rate And Data Quality: Evidence From Organic Food Consumption Survey Of Conventional Shoppers," Cultural Communication and Socialization Journal (CCSJ), Zibeline International Publishing, vol. 2(2), pages 68-74, November.
    3. Joachim Büschken & Ulf Böckenholt & Thomas Otter & Daniel Stengel, 2022. "Better Information From Survey Data: Filtering Out State Dependence Using Eye-Tracking Data," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 87(2), pages 620-665, June.
    4. Robert Neumann, 2016. "Understanding trustworthiness: using response latencies from CATI surveys to learn about the “crucial” variable in trust research," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 50(1), pages 43-64, January.

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