The great response-style myth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7983240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonard G Rorer (Oregon Research Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 129-156 |
| Publication date | 1965-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Bulletin (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2909 • E-ISSN: 1939-1455 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/h0021888 |
| PMID | 14292375 |
| OpenAlex | W2049948800 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 158 |
| References cited | 68 |
Art · Literature · Mythology · Style (visual arts) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Family and Disability Support Research · Health Policy Implementation Science · Psychology · Social Psychology
The leisure motivation of Japanese managers
On the Use of Alternative Interpretations in Contemporary Social Psychology
Authoritarianism and Political Racism
A Test of the Approaches of Adorno et al., Lederer and Altemeyer of Authoritarianism in Belgian Flanders
Authoritarianism and Group Identification
Conservatism and Misanthropy
Why the F Scale Predicts Racism
Procedures for successful data collection through psychological tests in the elderly
Measurement Error and the Structure of Attitudes
Scaling of attitude items under stress
Using Balanced Scales to Control Acquiescence
Religiocentrism and Ethnocentrism
Evidence for response bias as a source of error variance in applied assessment
Direction-of-wording effects in the relationships between scales
Item and response characteristics in attitude and personality measurement
Psychometric properties of the Ohio State leadership scales
Comparative validity of different strategies of constructing personality inventory scales
Authoritarianism scales and response bias
A perspective on developments in assessing psychopathology
Methodological implications of content-acquiescence correlation in the MMPI
Identification of content and style
Authoritarianism scales and response bias
A latent-structure model for answering personal questions
Individual viewpoints of social desirability
Acquiescence and the F Scale
Personality attributes associated with extreme response style
Internal versus external control of reinforcement
The shifting definitions of acquiescence
On the Internal Structure of the Mmpi
The "self-disclosure" and "self-presentation" views of item response dynamics and personality scale validity
Acquiescence Reponse Style and Attitude Change
Personality, defensiveness, and educational achievement
Enhancement and denial in socially desirable responding
On the nature of self-monitoring
Social desirability scales
Do Personality Traits Apply to Social Behaviour
Acquiescence in the MMPI
The Srole Items and Acquiescence
Black-White Differences in Self-Esteem
Response Bias in Surveys of Mental Health
Response Sets as Personality Concepts
Jealousy, Romantic Love, and Liking
Comparison of Multidimensional Measures of Aggression
Summated Rating Scale Construction
Structural analysis of social behavior.
Estimating within-group interrater reliability with and without response bias.
Commitment to the union
The stability of individual response styles.
Measurement and meaning of job satisfaction.
Response Style and Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Rating Scales Among East Asian and North American Students
Inequality and happiness
Measuring Service Quality in the Travel and Tourism Industry
Assessing Three Sources of Misresponse to Reversed Likert Items
An Overview of Psychological Measurement
Method Variance in Organizational Research
Modeling Acquiescence in Measurement Models for Two Balanced Sets of Items
Factors Defined by Negatively Keyed Items
Personality
Ineffectiveness of Reverse Wording of Questionnaire Items
The DSFI
Response Styles in Marketing Research
The Brief Symptom Inventory
The Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL)
Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence
Measurement and Control of Response Bias
Effect of Biasing an Attitude Scale
Phenomenal Correlates of Marital Status in Junior College Students
Test of Relationship between Yeasaying and Social Desirability
Toward a Definition of the Difficulty of a Personality Item
Social Desirability in Spouse Ratings
Satiation
Effects of Faking Instructions on the Word-Association Test
Direction of Wording Effects in Balanced Scales
An Interpersonal Competency Scale
Acquiescence” in the MMPI
Social Desirability and “Acquiescence Response Set”
Generality and Stability of Extreme Response Style
Faking Good” as a Problem in Comparative Studies of Heroin Addicts
Further Evidence concerning Acquiescence and the MMPI
Evaluative Confounding in the Choice of Bipolar Scales
Two Studies of Yeasaying
Development and validation of a 12-item version of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (B-L RI
Submissive authoritarians
An Improved Measure of Ethical Leadership
Set Them Free
A Comparison of Responses to Internet and Postal Surveys in a Public Engagement Context
Response Styles and Omitted Variable Bias. Detection and Mitigation
Attentiveness as a style of communication
Current Methodological Issues in Paper-and-Pencil Measuring Instruments
Gross national happiness as an answer to the Easterlin Paradox
Yea-saying and mood-of-the-day effects in self-reported quality of life
Mountain or Molehill? A Simulation Study on the Impact of Response Styles
Controlling Acquiescence Response Bias by Item Reversals
An Analysis of Two Response Styles
Item Structure as a Determinant of Item Difficulty in Verbal Analogies
Recovering Preipsative Information From Additive Ipsatized Data
A Validity Study of the Acquiescence Scale of the Holland Vocational Preference Inventory
Lonely but Not Alone
Scale Bias as a Factor in Mood Adjective Checklists
Developing an Interpretation of Item Parameters for Personality Items
Conformity and deviation.
Studies of independence and conformity
Acquiescence and Desirability As Response Determinants On the MMPI
Social Desirability and Expected Means on MMPI Scales
Relationships Between Various Psychometric Properties of Personality Items
Response Set in a Multiple-Choice Test
Response Set on Interest Inventory Triads
Deviant Response Tendencies
Response Style and Content Measures from Personality Inventories
Neutral Items as a Measure of Acquiescence
The Phony Language Examination
Convergences Among Stylistic Response Measures from Objective Personality Tests
The Measurement of Authoritarian Attitudes
Further Evidence on Response Sets and Test Design
Acquiescence as a Response Set and as a Personality Characteristic
Response Styles and Academic Achievement
Equivalence Range, Acquiescence, and Overgeneralization
Effects of Item Construction and Respondent Aptitude on Response Acquiescence
Response Sets and Test Validity
Social Desirability and the Factorial Interpretation of the MMPI
Social Acquiescence and "Education"
Relationships Among Response Sets and Cognitive Behaviors
Cognitive Styles in Categorizing Behavior1
The positive response set as related to task performance
Correcting personality scales for response sets or suppression effects
Acquiescence and the factorial interpretation of the MMPI
"A note on "Correcting personality scales for response sets or suppression effects
Response style as a personality variable
Components of variance due to acquiescence and content in the F scale measure of authoritarianism
Stability of Agreeing Response Set over a Period of Time
A Short Form of the MMPI
Acquiescence and Social Desirability Response Styles, Item Characteristics, and Conformity
Famous Sayings Test
Note on Ego-Strength, Defensiveness, and Acquiescence
On Semantic Differential Resistance to Response Bias Based on Stimulus Word Position
Some Recent Studies in Social Acquiescence
Affective Tone of Test Option Choice as a Deviant Response
The Effect of Acquiescence Response-Set Upon the Relationship of the F Scale and Conformity
Strategic, method, and stylistic variance in the MMPI
An Interpersonal Experiment on Reactions to Authority
A note on "ethnocentrism" and acquiescent response sets
The relationship between response style and personality variables
Response styles on the MMPI
Contribution of response bias to recognition thresholds
The relationship of biased test responses to psychopathology
A note on the Couch and Keniston measure of agreement response set
The relationship between response style and personality variables
Social desirability and agreement response set
Acquiescent response set and the Psychasthenia scale
Acquiescent response set as a measure of acquiescence
Yeasayers and naysayers
Agreeing response set and social desirability
Response set in the F scale
An Experiment on Question and Response Bias
Three versions of the F Scale and performance on the Semantic Differential
The "yeasayer" and social desirability
Content and style in personality assessment
Is the F scale irreversible
Authoritarianism or acquiescence in Bass's data
Construct validity in psychological tests
Social desirability or acquiescence in the MMPI? A case study with the SD Scale
Delay of gratification, need for achievement, and acquiescence in another culture
Two forms of social conformity
Authoritarianism or acquiescence
Yeasayers and naysayers
The psychological meaning of acquiescence set for authoritarianism
Concept of "subtlety" in structured psychiatric and personality tests
Development and evaluation of a scale for measuring social acquiescence
| Unique citing works | 158 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,59 |
| Citation span | 1965 - 2025 (61) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 118 |