TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Threat-inducing violent events exacerbate social desirability bias in survey responses
JO  - American journal of political science
A1  - Singh, Shane P.
A1  - Tir, Jaroslav
SP  - 154
EP  - 169
VL  - 67
IS  - 1
N2  - A key challenge in survey research is social desirability bias: respondents feel pressured to report acceptable attitudes and behaviors. Building on established findings, we argue that threat-inducing violent events are a heretofore unaccounted for driver of social desirability bias. We probe this argument by investigating whether fatal terror attacks lead respondents to overreport past electoral participation, a well-known and measurable result of social desirability bias. Using a cross-national analysis and natural and survey experiments, we show that fatal terror attacks generate turnout overreporting. This highlights that threat-inducing violent events induce social desirability, that researchers need to account for the timing of survey fieldwork vis-à-vis such events, and that some of the previously reported post-violent conflict increases in political participation may be more apparent than real.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0092-5853
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12615
ID  - ref1
ER  -