There has been perennial interest in personal qualities other than cognitive ability that
determine success, including self-control, grit, growth mind-set, and many others. Attempts to …

This paper presents the Adaptive Calibration Model (ACM), an evolutionary–developmental
theory of individual differences in the functioning of the stress response system. The stress …

Social desirability bias can change the results from marketing experiments and surveys.
However, there are few illustrations that show how serious social desirability bias can be …

Self-report studies often call for assessment of socially desirable responding. Many
researchers use the Marlowe–Crowne Scale for its brief versions; however, this scale is …

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This book provides the most comprehensive treatment of the theoretical concepts and
modelling techniques of quantitative risk management. Whether you are a financial risk …

A recent review of the relationship between narcissism and CWB reported two key results:(a)
narcissism is the dominant predictor of CWB among the dark triad personality traits, and (b) …

Employability is defined as the capacity to gain and retain formal employment, or find new
employment if necessary. Reasons for unemployment are often attributed to economic …

Impression management is the goal-directed activity of controlling information in order to
influence the impressions formed by an audience. Through impression management …

We investigated the effects that careless responding and acquiescence response bias have
on analyses conducted to assess construct dimensionality. Using job satisfaction …