8 sex-attitude items were found to have appreciable loadings on a psychoticism factor and a lie factor for random population samples of 228 men and 263 women. These factors were independent of each other, and of extraversion and neuroticism. The bearing of these results on the problem of dissimulation (“faking good”) on the sex attitude items is discussed.
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