10.7910/DVN/XOCNK1 Singh, Shane P. Shane P. Singh https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3263-5281 University of Georgia Tir, Jaroslav Jaroslav Tir University of Colorado Boulder Harvard Dataverse 2021 Social Sciences Social desirability Threats Turnout Surveys Singh, Shane P. Shane P. Singh University of Georgia Singh, Shane P. Shane P. Singh University of Georgia 2020-11-23 2021-02-26 2023-04-26 10.1111/AJPS.12615 65460217 1250 7557 128741721 93261620 137234841 1193802 1203822832 734 6058 958 52741 12928 2641 6658 11859 53147086 1722 187641950 28387 43256 117495 29816 text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values application/x-stata-syntax text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values application/x-stata-13 text/tab-separated-values application/x-stata-syntax text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/plain application/x-stata-syntax application/x-stata-syntax text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values application/x-stata-syntax application/x-stata-syntax application/pdf application/x-stata-syntax 1.1 Custom terms specific to this dataset A key challenge in survey research is social desirability bias: respondents feel pressured to report acceptable attitudes and behaviors. Building on established findings, we argue that threat-inducing violent events are a heretofore unaccounted for driver of social desirability bias. We probe this argument by investigating whether fatal terror attacks lead respondents to overreport past electoral participation, a well-known and measurable result of social desirability bias. Using a cross-national analysis and natural and survey experiments, we show that fatal terror attacks generate turnout overreporting. This highlights that threat-inducing violent events induce social desirability; that researchers need to account for the timing of survey fieldwork vis-à-vis such events; and that some of the previously reported post-violent conflict increases in political participation may be more apparent than real. This dataset underwent an independent verification process that replicated the tables and figures in the primary article. For the supplementary materials, verification was performed solely for the successful execution of code. The verification process was carried out by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. <br></br> The associated article has been awarded Open Materials and Open Data Badges. Learn more about the Open Practice Badges from the <a href="https://osf.io/tvyxz/wiki/home/" target="_blank">Center for Open Science</a>.<br></br> <img src="https://odum.unc.edu/files/2020/03/OpenData_PR-1.png" alt="Open Data Badge" height="77" width="80"> <img src="https://odum.unc.edu/files/2020/03/OpenMaterials_PR-1.png" alt="Open Materials Badge" height="77" width="80">