DELIBERATIVE VS DISINGENUOUS SUBJECTS ON THE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY OF NEED FOR COGNITION

Authors
HUNT JM CHATTERJEE A KERNAN JB
Citation
Jm. Hunt et al., DELIBERATIVE VS DISINGENUOUS SUBJECTS ON THE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY OF NEED FOR COGNITION, Perceptual and motor skills, 77(1), 1993, pp. 95-98
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Experimental
Journal title
Perceptual and motor skills → ACNP
ISSN journal
00315125
Volume
77
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
95 - 98
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-5125(1993)77:1<95:DVDSOT>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Petty and Cacioppo's need for cognition scale (NCS)-both long version and short version-correlated significantly with the social desirabilit y scale of Crowne and Marlowe. Inasmuch as need for cognition is an im portant individual-difference variable in Petty and Cacioppo's elabora tion likelihood model of attitude change, caution seems warranted when ever this model is used in settings associated with cognitive achievem ent, lest subjects disingenuously feign cognitive need in a socially d esirable attempt to appear ''smart'' or deliberative.