Response Latencies Expose a Limitation with Contemporary Vs. Classic Ratings of Item Social Desirability

Traditional approaches estimating socially desirable content within assessment indicators are criticized as being overly crude. The current study utilizes response latencies and estimates of inter-rater agreement to examine how much more draining of cognitive resources the preferred contemporary procedure (Kuncel and Tellegen, 2009) is to the classic procedure (Edwards, 1953).