Data from 138 college students showed that responses to the Kirton Adaption Innovation Inventory are unaffected by social desirability (r = .03). A subsample of 47 students also completed the Eysenck Personality Inventory Lie scale. The low correlation reported by Kirton for these two instruments was successfully replicated.
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