Social Desirability

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A cross-domain growth analysis: externalizing and internalizing behaviors during 8 years of childhood. 
  • A developmental perspective on peer rejection: mechanisms of stability and change. 
  • Adolescent Infertility: A Case Report. 
  • Allocation of transplantable organs: do people want to punish patients for causing their illness? 
  • Assessing weight-related quality of life in adolescents. 
  • Calibrating the sociometer: the relationship between interpersonal appraisals and state self-esteem. 
  • Children's goals and strategies in response to conflicts within a friendship 
  • Confronting obesity in children: behavioral and psychological factors. 
  • Deconfounding the effects of dominance and social acceptance on self-esteem. 
  • Does familiarity breed contempt or liking? Comment on Reis, Maniaci, Caprariello, Eastwick, and Finkel (2011). 
  • Effect of children’s perceived rejection on physical aggression 
  • Exposing Racial Discrimination: Implicit & Explicit Measures-The My Body, My Story Study of 1005 US-Born Black & White Community Health Center Members. 
  • If I'm not hot, are you hot or not? Physical attractiveness evaluations and dating preferences as a function of one's own attractiveness. 
  • Impact of perceived consensus on stereotypes about obese people: a new approach for reducing bias. 
  • Less is more: the lure of ambiguity, or why familiarity breeds contempt. 
  • Less is often more, but not always: additional evidence that familiarity breeds contempt and a call for future research. 
  • Loving those who justify inequality: the effects of system threat on attraction to women who embody benevolent sexist ideals. 
  • Motivational and emotional aspects of the self. 
  • Multiple sources of data on social behavior and social status in the school: a cross-age comparison. 
  • Personality and oral health. 
  • Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Home Vegetable Gardening Intervention among Older Cancer Survivors Shows Feasibility, Satisfaction, and Promise in Improving Vegetable and Fruit Consumption, Reassurance of Worth, and the Trajectory of Central Adiposity. 
  • Portrayals of overweight and obese individuals on commercial television. 
  • Positive media portrayals of obese persons: impact on attitudes and image preferences. 
  • Preadolescent peer status, aggression, and school adjustment as predictors of externalizing problems in adolescence. 
  • Predicting boys' social acceptance and aggression: the role of mother-child interactions and boys' beliefs about peers. 
  • Repressive coping style: relationships with depression, pain, and pain coping strategies in lung cancer outpatients. 
  • Selective versus unselective romantic desire: not all reciprocity is created equal. 
  • Self-presentation can be hazardous to your health: impression management and health risk. 
  • Social anxiousness: the construct and its measurement. 
  • Social information processing and sociometric status: sex, age, and situational effects. 
  • Social versus individual motivation: implications for normative definitions of religious orientation. 
  • Suicidal behavior in adolescents: relationship to weight status, weight control behaviors, and body dissatisfaction. 
  • The counterfeit self: the deceptive costs of faking it. 
  • The gender gap in reporting household gun ownership. 
  • The invalidity of disclaimers about the effects of social feedback on self-esteem. 
  • The relation between childhood proactive and reactive aggression and substance use initiation. 
  • Treatment regimen, sexual attractiveness concerns and psychological adjustment among African American breast cancer patients. 
  • When similarity breeds content: need for closure and the allure of homogeneous and self-resembling groups. 
  • Young children care more about their reputation with ingroup members and potential reciprocators. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society