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We also administered the Impression Management Scale3 (Paulhus,1991), which measures the extent to which people presentthemselves in a socially desirable manner. For each item (e.g., ‘‘Inever take things that don’t belong to me”), participants indicatedtheir agreement on a 7-point scale ranging from 1 = ‘‘Not true” to7 = ‘‘Very true”. We wanted to account for the possibility that receivWe also administered the Impression Management Scale3 (Paulhus,1991), which measures the extent to which people presentthemselves in a socially desirable manner. For each item (e.g., ‘‘Inever take things that don’t belong to me”), participants indicatedtheir agreement on a 7-point scale ranging from 1 = ‘‘Not true” to7 = ‘‘Very true”. We wanted to account for the possibility that receiversreport inflated levels of appreciation, particularly for smallergifts, to present a more socially desirable image. By assessing eachindividual’s tendency to provide a socially desirable response, wecould help mitigate the possibility that the responses we collectedwere affected by a politeness motive (as explained in our analysisbelow).
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