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Stephanie is having participants report their feelings of racism on a questionnaire. Suppose the participants do not report their true feelings but rather say they have no racist thoughts. They want to avoid potentially embarrassing responses that will make Stephanie think badly of them. Such a problem is called
a. Social desirability
b. Reactivity
c. Ecological invalidity
d. Lack of reliability
I think that the answer to this is a. social reliability. Am I on the right track?

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