Approval Motive and Acceptance of “Fake” Personality Test Interpretations which Differ in Favorability
- 1 October 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 17 (2) , 395-402
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1965.17.2.395
Abstract
The Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability (M-C SD) scale has been interpreted as measuring a need for social approval and then, more recently, as a measure of vulnerable self-esteem. The present study placed Ss in a situation where gaining approval from the psychologist required accepting unfavorable personality test interpretations as personally characteristic of them when acceptance would lower their self-esteem. High-scoring Ss on the M-C SD scale were more likely to accept favorable but less likely to accept unfavorable “fake” personality test interpretations from the psychologist than were the low scoring Ss on M-C SD.Keywords
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