Social dominance prejudice correlations survive controls for social desirability bias

Evidence

Once again, none of the four measures correlated well with RWA, the rs being .05, .17, −.02, and .13. Three had significant negative correlations with social dominance orientation: Marlowe-Crowne (−.25), Impression Management (−.21), and Denial (−.23). But the supposedly most relevant Self-Deceptive Enhancement correlated only −. with SDO. So even if you believe these scales are valid, despite their failure to connect with the demonstrably relevant RWA dimension, the “SDO nest” does not appear to be much of a social desirability artifact. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1049

Categorization

• XREF: This is the empirical disconfirmation of the response-style artifact hypothesis raised at paragraph 1044, marking a completed test-and-reject arc. — connects to: Social desirability bias does not inflate symbolic racism’s link to policy views — Christopher Tarman and David O. Sears, The Conceptualization and Measurement…, 226; Social desirability bias makes present-day racial preference measurement difficult — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 986