Also, under-reporting of alcohol consumption because of social desirability should not have affected our risk estimates, assuming that under-reporting was independent of later case and non-case status and that this did not change the ranking of the study participants.
However, presence of meaning in life has been found to be unrelated to scores on measures of social desirability in several studies [ 15, 49] and, as argued by Heintzelman and King [ 46], high presence of meaning scores have been found consistently among diverse samples, including anonymous samples where social desirability may not have been a big concern.
Second, we may have experienced social desirability bias as HCPs may not have given frank responses for fear of being embarrassed if they were not reporting ADRs.
Whilst not specifically asked, participants did not question the desirability of having both parents and adolescents involved, in line with current recommendations [ 8, 47].
Nevertheless, this may not have entirely overcome social desirability effects.
Second, social desirability bias was possible in that the views of decision makers expressed in the survey may not have corresponded to what they actually believed, or did.
We did not have the impression that social desirability was a problem.
Pheromones do not have an impact on a woman's desire, but they might affect her desirability, she said.
Mothers may not have presented the actual situation due to social desirability considerations.
At one point, a heated debate takes place on the desirability of having sex with women who can't speak French.
