The influence of social desirability set in ethnic stereotype measurement was demonstrated via the paired comparison method. The substantial positive correlation between the favorability value of an adjective and the percentage of 114 subjects choosing the adjective to describe a target group, holds for both salient and also unfamiliar target ethnic groups.
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