by david allan van nostrand | Jan 9, 2023 | Americana, Items in the News, Social Desirability, The Wayback Machine
Annie Oakley was a television series in the 1950s. The half-hour show was a highly fictionalized account of the legendary sharpshooter (née Phoebe Ann Mosey) who appeared as a star attraction with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. The executive producer was singing...
by david allan van nostrand | Jun 14, 2021 | Items in the News, Organizational Behavior, Social Desirability
“Almost overnight the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade was in full flower, and Captain Black was enraptured to discover himself spearheading it. He had really hit on something. All the enlisted men and officers on combat duty had to sign a loyalty oath to get their map...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 30, 2019 | Gatekeepers, Social Desirability
In The Guardian, Issy Sampson described rap music as society’s lurch toward infantilism. His? Her? (but certainly not Their) many examples included language that disgusts most people. The British daily published every bit of it unbowdlerized, as is their policy....
by david allan van nostrand | Feb 16, 2017 | Conformity, Human Behavior, Items in the News, Social Desirability
There is an excellent article in the February 15, 2017 Wall Street Journal called A Generation Living For Likes. Here is a link to it. In it, Laura Vanderkam talks about Donna Freitas’ book, The Happiness Effect. “The real downside of Facebook, Instagram and their...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 17, 2016 | Human Behavior, Research, Social Desirability
We all know that people will tell you one thing and do another. Social desirability is the term behavioral scientists use to describe how people will deliberately give false responses so as to present themselves in the best light. They’ll tell us they do things...
