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Factors determining implicit attitudes toward sports and exercise: desirability and enjoyment
Previous studies have found that implicit attitudes, in addition to explicit attitudes, toward sports and exercise can help predict health-related...
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Understanding the relationships among self-ascribed gender traits, social desirability, and ambivalent sexism
The stereotypical gender traits used in self-descriptions could contribute to shape ambivalent sexist attitudes toward women, including antipathy...
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An English list of trait words including valence, social desirability, and observability ratings
To enable flexible and controlled research on personality, information processing, and interactions in socio-emotional contexts, the availability of...
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The Influence of Social Desirability on Sexual Behavior Surveys: A Review
Research in fields for which self-reported behaviors can be compared with factual data reveals that misreporting is pervasive and often extreme. The...
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Call Me Daddy: How Long-term Desirability Is Influenced by Intention for Fatherhood
One of the most important decisions an individual can make involves investing in a mating relationship. For women, the process of mate selection can...
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Oral-Genital Contact and the Meaning of “Had Sex”: The Role of Social Desirability
Previous studies have found that a large proportion of college students do not consider oral-genital contact as having “had sex.” In all studies, the...
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Putting Effort into Emotion Regulation: Manipulating Desirability and Motivational Strength
Although people often want to regulate their emotions, they are sometimes reluctant to invest the necessary effort in doing so. We propose that...
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When a man sounds like a woman: The consequences of puberphonia for perceived romantic desirability and attractiveness for relationships
Puberphonia refers to a vocal disorder that involves the persistence of a high-pitched voice beyond the age at which vocal maturation is expected to...
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Exploring the Influence of Object Similarity and Desirability on Children’s Ownership Identification and Preferences in Autism and Typical Development
This study investigated how ownership identification accuracy and object preferences in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are influenced...
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The room-product-effect and its application to investigate the desirability of designed products: a review
The Room-Effect originated in environmental psychology, where the room a person was in influences how they were judged by people. Subsequent studies...
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Individual Differences in How Desirable People Think They Are as a Mate
Mate value is an important concept in mate choice research although its operationalization and understanding are limited. Here, we reviewed and...
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The creepy, the bad and the ugly: exploring perceptions of moral character and social desirability in uncanny faces
We used implicit and explicit measures to study whether “real” uncanny faces (by faces of Botox users and very ugly people) will be associated with...
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A novel image database for social concepts reveals preference biases in autistic spectrum in adults and children
Human beings display the extraordinary ability of grasping and communicating abstract concepts. Yet, no standardized instruments exist to assess this...
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Predictors of the quality of the relationship between informal caregiver and care recipient in informal caregiving of older people: presentation and evaluation of a new item
BackgroundAn important factor that has not been directly addressed very often in caregiver (CG) counseling to date is the quality of the relationship...
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The Impact of Stigma, Autism Label and Wording on the Perceived Desirability of the Online Dating Profiles of Men on the Autism Spectrum
Those seeking romantic relations are increasingly using online dating sites, including young men on the autism spectrum. This study presented dating...
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The Fakeability of Personality Measurement with Graded Paired Comparisons
This study compares the faking resistance of Likert scales and graded paired comparisons (GPCs) analyzed with Thurstonian IRT models. We analyzed...
